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2SP
inner city not-for-profit project space.
2SP is run by an interdisciplinary University of Melbourne Postgraduate committee. 2SP is located near the corner of Nicholson St and Elgin St, Carlton, convenient for both Parkville and Southbank campuses.
2SP is committed to knowledge transfer by understanding and meeting the needs of University of Melbourne and VCA_MCM students to exhibit within the broader community, experience enriching industry engagement and be part of shaping the cultural currents of our creative community.
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2SP Committee
- Piers Greville - Art Director and Artist UniMelb MFA
- Danny Frommer - Artist UniMelb Masters Coursework
- Jaden Hasting - Scholar and Artist UniMelb Centre of Ideas PhD Candidate
- Nadja Mott - Curator and Artist UniMelb PhD Candidate
- Elliot Munn - Writer - Journalist - UniMelb Masters Coursework
- Kelli Allred - Curator From Tate Modern, Melbourne Festival UniMelb Centre of Ideas PhD Candidate
- Emily Siddons - Curator from Acmi Centre of Ideas UniMelb PhD Candidate
- Kade McDonald - Hanging Valley - Indigenous Art Curator
- Evan Lowenstein -Lowenstein Sharp Accountant
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2SP's Wellbeing Program 2017 - 2018
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Our Well-Being Arts Summer Program run by UniMelb Post Graduate students involves, undergraduate and postgraduate students from across the University of Melbourne's Southbank and Parkville campuses. These students engage with internationally-renowned artists in collaborative and community-facing interdisciplinary Arts practice. The program further extends the students' professional and personal development through exploring themes vital to a holistic notion of well being, with a particular emphasis on inclusiveness and equality.
Well-Being Arts Summer Program expected Outcomes.
- Generate publicity for the students, the University, and the Well Being programme through press coverage.
- Developing academic and professional connections across multiple disciplines at the University of Melbourne.
- Encouraging undergraduate students to pursue an interdisciplinary arts practice.
- Production of professional quality documentation (photos, video, and catalogue) of the programming.
- Through this 3 month intensive program, develop a pedagogical framework that can be expanded for future programming.
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Example of our Future Show in the WellBeing Program
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My Own Berghain: 2017
A visual art exhibition, installation, performative action, physical workshop, and Book. This program will involve VCA graduate Students.
Tsuki is establishing herself as a queer trans identified performance artist, and along with fellow queer performer, Leisa Prowd, is creating Ballet/Butoh/Burlesque/Techno performance events.
These Images are a test run of the Performance art 2SP. A week-long performance/collaboration between queer performing artist Tsuki Nakajima, an alumnus of the VCA Dance Department and Australian Ballet, and 3 students from varying subjects to participate in a durational piece titled "My Own Bargain" -- an ongoing project that focuses on radical inclusivity and self esteem.
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Tsuki Transformer began life as Timothy Crafti. She trained in classical ballet from age five, graduating from Australian Ballet School in 2008. She has danced with companies and freelance projects in Israel, Melbourne and Berlin from 2009 - 2016. She is now a highly sort after Ballet and Ashtanga Yoga Teacher, and a Performance Artist, with Post Graduate Diploma in Performance Creation (Victorian College of the Arts, 2012). Performance highlights have included : Melecca Arts and Performance Festival (Malaysia, 2013), Arts Island Festival (Indonesia, 2014), and 100 Grad (Berlin 2015). Tsuki is now centring her artistic energies on My Own Berghain; a visual art exhibition, installation, performative action, physical workshop, and Book. It is also spiritual and poetic approach to gym fitness spaces, cyber queer communities, and anarchistic performance events. This project will be developed in Melbourne, and brought to Berlin over 2017/18, in collaboration with multi disciplinary artists from both cities. Tsuki is establishing herself as a queer trans identified performance artist, and along with fellow queer performer, Leisa Prowd, is creating Ballet/Butoh/Burlesque/Techno performance events.
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This was a test run for the performance at 2SP.
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Case Study 1.
Toys R Us. 2017 3rd Year VCA/UniMelb Critical Art and Theory.
The Students produced a room sheet and invitation and documented the exhibition.
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Case Study 2.
Hanging Valley Exhibitions: Curated by Kade McDonald
VCA Student in 2016 Steaphan Paton has since been represented by Tristian Koenig Gallery
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Case Study 3.
Danny Frommer 2016
VCA Masters By Coursework Student.
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Danny Frommer's solo exhibition Dog's Breakfast was exhibited at Second Space Projects as part of his VCA Masters coursework.
'When someone calls something a dog’s breakfast it generally means eclectic or that there’s a mess that can’t be salvaged. It’s a pretty loaded statement generally, and it presupposes a hierarchy, between an orderly state of affairs and a disorderly one. A human/animal distinction and relation is set up and usually the former gets the upper hand.'
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Case Study 3:
PhD Candidate Travis Cox. This exhbition was opened at 2SP by May of Yarra Cr Amanda Stone was and Councillors.
Cox recently completed his PhD thesis, “Code, Display, User: Semiotic Dialogues in Interactive Computer Artworks”, at the Victorian College of the Arts and now works as a researcher at the Microsoft Research Centre for SocialNUI at the University of Melbourne.
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29th November – 4th December 2016
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As part of the exhibition 'Urban Reneural' presented by Media Lab Melbourne, VCA alumni Travis Cox presented the installation Architectural Desires at Second Space Projects.
'Architectural Desires examines sustainable urban practices through artificial intelligence. Using open source data from the internet and the Yarra council, Architectural Desires simulates living organisms within the local area which will live, grow and die over the course of the exhibition highlighting architectural forms, community desire paths and the environment in which we live.'
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Case Study 4:
VCA Master of Photography Graduate: Ross Coulter’s Audience series at 2SP.
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Case Study 5:
VCA Graduate and Resident Artist Rowan Oliver working on a series of collaborative short shows since June 2017.
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Case Study 6: VCA Graduate Natalie Ryan // Second Nature
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17 - 26 March, 2017
In Second Nature Natalie Ryan considers the way the natural world is artificially reconfigured for display within institutions. Drawn from her studies in anatomical and natural history museum collections, Ryan presents a series of specimens from zoological, botanical and geological groups outside of their original environment, as a secondary mode in which to view and engage with displaced nature.
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Case Study 7.
Collaborative work by a group of VCA students and graduates by Rare Candy
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Rare Candy was exhibited at 2SP as a direct response to pulling out of the Berlin Biennale. It included recent collaborative work by Rare Candy with:
Alden Epp
Spencer Lai
Natasha Madden
Ander Rennick
Amber Wright
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Case Study 8.
VCA PhD Bon Mott Curated Nigredo written up in I-D magazine and supported by the City of Yarra. The show involved 12 VCA Graduates
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Nigredo consisted of 9 female and 9 male Indigenous and non-Indigenous emerging and mid-career artists working across the disciplines of fashion, sculpture, kinetic sculpture, photography, video, drawing, performance, and painting engaging in a dialogue with the curatorial premise of the Alchemical Nigredo.
Nigredo featured works by VCA alumni:
James Bowen
Kim Bridgland
Tara Elizabeth Cook
Rebecca Delange
Nicholas Flood
Danny Frommer
Linsey Gosper
Jaden Hastings (USA)
Bon Mott
Steaphan Paton
Simon Pericich
James Tunks
Jordan Wood
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