Vertical Villages – Residency
18 July 2013
In July ruangrupa and myself are conducting a residency at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in Haymarket, developing a new project:
Vertical Villages is an artist-led project by Indonesian artist collective ruangrupa and Australian artist Keg de Souza, known and admired internationally for their socially-driven art practices. Vertical Villages investigates the experience of international students living in Sydney’s CBD and the relationship between a community’s daily lives and their urban and spatial environments.
During July the artists are in residency in Sydney at 4A, hosting a series of workshops that engage international students in a dialogue about social mobility and urban density, further connecting their experiences in Sydney with students in Jakarta via online platforms.
Vertical Villages is the first time that ruangrupa have worked in Sydney and by collaborating with Keg de Souza this project represents a unique, organic and process-driven experiment that will culminate in an exhibition at 4A that will be incorporated as part of the 15th Jakarta Biennale later this year.
More information here: http://www.4a.com.au/vertical-villages/
We also have a blog for the project here: http://www.tumblr.com/blog/verticalvillages