11 Feb _x0013_ 19 Mar 2011 Chris Aerfeldt, Roy Ananda, Carolina Facelli, Irmina van Niele, Lee Salamone, Kylie Waters, Sera Waters and Qi Zhang One of the driving energies of Australian art is disruption. Each new wave of migration creates new modes, in new voices, to unsettle what has gone before. Some of the best Australian art is found outside conventional genres, in works that refer to direct experiences of the distant world. Home stories is a collaborative project between the Migration Museum of SA and Adelaide Central Gallery. The project aims to demonstrate the resonance of various cultural groups in Australia and to counter irrational and prejudiced public attitudes as conflict amongst cultural groups continues and increasingly has an international impact. Selected South Australian artists with migrant heritage will draw on museum and social history material held at the Migration Museum in SA that refers to their heritage, as inspiration, to make new works. The resulting new works and the Museum items will be exhibited at ACSA during the Fringe Festival 2011. Collectively these artists embrace a number of nationalities in their heritage; Italian, Dutch, English, Argentinean, Tamil/Malay, Chinese, Estonian and German. The selected artists will draw on their ancestry to make new works for exhibition, inspired by selected items from the Migration Museum's collections. Our selected artists will be given access to the Migration Museum collection database and store from March 2010 where they will identify an object that reverberates through their practice. The selected object will be exhibited alongside the new commissioned work at Adelaide Central Gallery 11 February until 19 March 2011. The Migration Museum collection features clothing, furniture and household linen, institutional and personal objects, handcrafts, letters, photographs and documents. The Museum has collected these items in conjunction with their histories, so that they function not only as objects of great interest in themselves, but also carry the experiences of individuals and families as they mesh with the great sagas of history _x0013_ war and famine, long journeys of migration and settlement and questions about cultural identity. This is a rich mine for artists to explore as they interpret their own cultural ancestry within the context of others. Their interpretations will resonate with South Australian audiences as they consider the dimensions of their common past presented in new ways. This project will act as a model for a new type of museum practice, one in which both the artefact and the contemporary work are given prominence and where the contemporary artists are given unprecedented access to historical material relating to their migrant past. Adelaide Central School of Art Inc (ACSA) is an independent, not-for-profit, accredited Higher Education Provider that provides intensive training for students looking to develop a career as a practising artist. The ACSA Gallery is an integral part of the school_x0019_ s teaching program. For more information please contact Prue Gramp, Gallery Manager, at prue.gramp@acsa.sa.edu.au
0 Comments