West Space
The place we do not know is the place we are looking for – Opening celebration
The place we do not know is the place we are looking for interrogates modernity’s relation with calculability and causality, drawing attention to the excesses that cannot be explained by the laws and tools of scientific measurement and technological systems.
Curated by Laura McLean and Suvani Suri, the exhibition and accompanying programs seek to create a space to think about limits, fragility, porosities, and what it means to speak in languages that poke holes in a world preoccupied with capture, control, certitude, and determinacy.
The place we do not know is the place we are looking for turns towards practices working through multiple modalities of inventing new languages that hold dreams, stories, encounters, provocations, and the ineffable.
The artworks and conversations aim to foreground and reactivate sites of marginalisation and alienation, imagining them as potential grounds for the emergence of new relationalities and forms of thinking to tenaciously reconfigure the world as we know it.
Featuring artists across Australia and India, Priyanka Chhabra, Uzma Falak, Merve Ertufan, Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Shareeka Helaluddin, Mochu, Rahee Punyashloka, Hayden Ryan, Thomas Smith, Joel Sherwood Spring, Aarti Sunder, Aasma Tulika, and West Space Studio artists Aarti Jadu & Claire de Carteret.
Venue
Perry Street Building
Collingwood Yards
Collingwood, 3066
Accessibility
Floor access to the Perry Street Building can be made via the following paths. From 30A Perry Street, a footpath leads to the retail area of Perry St (UG) and courtyard. The Perry Street Lift can be accessed via 30A and 30B Perry Street, allowing access to levels 1 and 2 of Perry Street Building. From Johnston Street access to Perry St Building can be made by crossing the courtyard.
Accessible toilets are located in three areas within the Perry Street Building. On the Upper Ground Level (Level UG) the accessible toilets are located in the service corridor in the northern part of the Building. near the staircase. These toilets are open throughout event hours. On L1 and L2 the toilets are located in the northern part of the building, behind heavy manual blue double doors. All accessible toilets are equipped with manual locks, exit buttons and grab rails.
