Bowness Prize Finalists Exhibition

A group exhbition of 48 finalists for the 2014 Bowness Photography Prize

13th Dong Gang International Photo Festival: Episodes Australian Photography Now

Curated group exhibition entitled Episodes: Australian Photography Now, part of the Dong Gang International Photo Festival

13th Dong Gang International Photo Festival 2014

Curated group exhibition entitled Episodes: Australian Photography Now, part of the Dong Gang International Photo Festival.
An exhibition book produced by the Dong Gang Museum of Photography for the Dong Gang International Photo Festival. Special Exhibition curated by Natalie King and Olivia Poloni entitled Episodes: Australian Photography Now featuring the following artists: Patrick Pound, Christian Thompson, Destiny Deacon and Virginia Fraser, Martin Smith, Michael Cook, Paul Knight, Polixeni Papapetrou, Polly Borland,Tracey Moffatt, Trent Parke, William Yang.

Encountering the ‘other’: interpreting student experiences of a multi-sensory museum exhibition

The Immigration Museum Melbourne, Australia, launched the Identity: Yours, Mine, Ours exhibition in 2011. Aimed primarily at secondary school students, this long-term installation seeks to foster reflection on identity and belonging, as well as dialogue about racism, through an interactive, immersive museum experience. This paper describes a multi-method research project, which included narrative interviews, focus groups and video diaries with 47 Year 11–12 students from three secondary schools in Victoria, Australia, and discusses each method's contribution to an overall empirical understanding of the installation's impact on students' experiences. Emerging findings suggest the ways in which the exhibition space supports students to encounter and engage with individual stories and experiences, thus moving beyond an abstract tolerance of cultural diversity by unsettling the self and destabilising stereotyped and prejudiced interpretations of the ‘other’. The paper concludes by discussing the potential for triangulated qualitative approaches to provide rich emic perspectives on multi-sensory exhibitions.

Museum exhibition practice: recent developments in Europe, Canada and Australia

'Permanent' museum exhibitions or galleries are usually planned for a life of seven to ten years, but not infrequently survive for thirty years or more. When change finally occurs, it addresses new approaches in ideology, disciplines, technology and fashion. This chapter surveys such shifts in transnational history and Aboriginal cultures presented in museums.

Treatment: six public artworks at the western treatment plant

This large scale curated Public Art project responds to the landscape, histories and technologies at Melbourne Water's Western Treatment Plant, Werribee. TREATMENT, with curator David Cross, associate curator Cameron Bishop, and six leading Australian artists - Bindi Cole Chocka, Megan Evans, Shane McGrath, Catherine Bell, Techa Noble and Spiros Panigirakis - have been supported to research the site and create artworks experienced by bus, across the plant. The artists have been commissioned to develop projects at a variety of sites. Sensory, technological, community and historical engagement are key aspects of this high profile project.