City Mobilities is a two-day intensive exploring ideas about the way we access and move in public spaces, supported by City of Adelaide. The workshop is open to artists and non- artists interested in gaining new skills and knowledge in site-based art projects. Over the two days, participants will work with the lead artists Tom Borgas (The Mill resident artist) and Paul Gazzola (OSCA Artistic Director) to explore how we can rethink and reconfigure the city’s infrastructure into other forms and functionalities.
What Participants Can Expect:
The workshop will explore a variety of visual, design and performance making methods to highlight, question and renegotiate the importance of individual participation in public space. Participants will be invited to research various city sites and public spaces and develop a series of conceptual and physical responses in a collaborative studio-based set up.
The masterclass will:
Offer participants a fertile space to share, learn, create and exchange ideas, skills and processes
Open up new ways of thinking, doing and making in a collaborative and collegial gathering
Stimulate and support the skills development of local SA artists seeking new approaches to working within the public domain
The City Mobilities masterclass is a precursor to the development of a longer collaborative public art project planned for 2021/22 and is the second outcome of an ongoing partnership between The Mill and OSCA.
Details
When: Wednesday, October 14, and Thursday, October 15 10am–4pm
Venue: The Mill Breakout Space, 154 Angas Street, Adelaide (enter via Gunson Street)
Cost: $60 + booking fee
What to wear: Participants are requested to dress adequately and bring a hat for the sun as we will be working outside at times
What materials to bring:
Participants need to bring a sketch pad and pencil/pen
All other materials will be supplied
Artist Biographies:
Tom Borgas is an Adelaide-based visual artist working from a sculptural foundation across multiple platforms including gallery and project work, public sculpture, festival interventions, performance and education. His research finds its inspiration in the blurry spaces between image and object, virtual and physical, maker and viewer. Borgas’ work has been shown at galleries and venues across Australia. His practice continues to expand through commissioning agents including UAP, Stockroom and MARS gallery Melbourne, the City of Adelaide and the Adelaide Festival Centre. His practice has also been supported through organisations that include the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts South Australia, NAVA, Guildhouse and The Helpmann Academy. madebytomborgas.com
Paul Gazzola is an artist and curator working in the expanded field of participatory art practice, contemporary performance, sculpture, scenography and video. Over the last 25 years he has generated an innovative array of projects that explore the relationship between the body, site and the built environment. These works for stages, galleries, museums, site-specific settings and print have been commissioned and presented in Australia and internationally. He is also the Artistic Director of OSCA – Open Space Contemporary Arts. www.paulgazzola.org