Fugitive Moments exhibited On The Bundian Way at Underbelly Arts Lab & Festival at the National Art School, Sydney on 7-8 October 2017.
How then to display this history and these new representations of place? How to brush history against the grain in a gallery space? Utilising the experimental laboratory format of Underbelly Arts Festival, the exhibiting of the assorted works, materials and archives of the project and the ephemera from the walk will emerge during the two weeks on site at the National Art School Sydney. The installation will be open and iterative with a a series of dialogues, both planned and unexpected shaping the eventual display.
During the first week of the two week residency/laboratory phase Fugitive Moments will hold a workshop which will ask the question: ‘How should we display this project?’. This workshop will serve as a means to help direct the way in which the exhibition will take shape within the space provided as well as encourage a broader dialogue about the nature and politics of history and the problematic of the white cube space itself as a site of alterity.
Following the staged and live installation of the show after week one, week two will see Fugitive Moments open up their practice to a workshop: ‘What next?’. Far from being finished by the display of objects and works, the project is instead imagined as opened and ongoing, a methodology intimated at but not quite realised. On the Bundian Way may be it’s first or last iteration. In this way the exhibition is utilised as both an ending - a singular display of work as a means of telling history and place, and, also a starting point for a broader dialogue about the project's methods, outcomes, successes, failures and futures.
The Workshop, facilitated by Peter Johnson
Documentation of the exhibition
