Media-Space 1981-1986
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Access Media-Space performance and meetings audio as well as a recording of the Media-Space Roundtable event.
You can access a complete scan of the Media-Space Compendium 1982.
Much like today’s Artist Run Initiatives that are such a key part of a flourishing arts scene, Media-Space was based on a collaborative ethos grounded in critical discussion about how artists might creatively intervene in and change the culture that surrounded them. To this end, they developed a graphic and textual ‘inquiry model’ that guided their exploration of the world through a very focused consideration of, as they put it ‘the ways that historical, sociological, natural, perceptual, scientific, geographical, archaeological and unknown contexts interconnect’.
Robert Cook
AGWA Curator of Western Australian and Australian ArtThe group’s various explorations of artistic activities and experiences were employed to investigate themes such as suburban expansion, the layout of the city and its modes of graphic embellishment, class and gender structures, as well as pointedly reframing the state’s development narratives (of the period’s economic boom) as being essentially colonialist.
