In partnership with the Melbourne International Arts Festival, ACCA presented The Dwelling, a major international exhibition that transformed the ordinary domestic space into a phantasmic encounter through imagistic, surrealistic twists. The exhibition included Cardiff/Miller’s extraordinary kunstkamma Opera for Small Room; Michaela Milian’s Forenwald animation installation; Joyce Hinterding and David Haine’s Pennsylvania House; Eljia Liisa Ahtila’s Talo (the house) and Callum Morton’s iconic International Style.
The Dwelling took visitors on a marvelous psychological and symbolic journey through various manifestations of the domestic and maverick dwelling. Along the way they encountered murder, suspense, floods, flying cars, unwelcome visitors, hermits, opera, German history, urban planning and Hansel and Gretel!
The Dwelling was awarded the Age Critics Award for the Melbourne International Festival, a first for Visual Arts.
Exhibiting Artists: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Michaela Melián, Callum Morton, David Noonan & Simon Trevaks, Sofia Hultén and Calum Stirling
Curator: Juliana Engberg
Coordinating Curator: Hannah Mathews
Publication
The Dwelling: Exhibition Guide
In the Press
9 October, The Age, Nightmare on Southbank
12 October, The Age, Who said poetry was dead? It's surprise star of festival
16 October, ArtsHub, The Dwelling
18 October, The Age, Best of the fest
20 October, The Australian, The house as a mind on the edge
Other Material
Education Kit
