A Constructed World
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Exhibition
A Constructed World: Increase your Uncertainty
Publication
A Constructed World: Increase your Uncertainty
In the Press...
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Exhibition
Rent
...for specific purposes, Rent toured internationally to Overgarden Gallery, Copenhagen prior to its presentation at ACCA.
Exhibiting Artists: Geoff Baker, Kate Beynon, Philip Brophy, A Constructed World, Julia Gorman, Andrew Hurle, Mathew Jones, Danius Kesminas and Mike Stevenson, Callum Morton, Kenneth...
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Exhibition
Peter Cripps: Towards an elegant solution
Australian Artists Series highlights the practice of artistic innovators whose work and approach has evolved to significantly influence further generations of artists. Previous artists who have exhibited in the series include Susan Norrie, Domenico de Clario, Lyndal Jones and A Constructed World...
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Exhibition
Geoff Lowe: Collaborations 1980 – 1992
Curated by Juliana Engberg
To tell a story you must first of all construct a world, furnished as much as possible, down to the slightest details. If I were to construct a river, I would need two banks; and if on the left bank I put a fisherman, and if I were to give this fisherman a wrathful...
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Exhibition
VNS Matrix: All New Gen
VNS Matrix were a female group committed to redefining the role and image of women in art and technology. In a world of ‘game boys’ and male control, the multi-media installation All New Gen introduced a new construct. Supported by Empire Ridge Multimedia...
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Exhibition
Mike Nelson: Lonely Planet
The year ended with the opening of Mike Nelson’s massive architectural installation, Lonely Planet in which the British artist, well known for his elaborate and ‘real’ constructed environments, converted the spaces of ACCA into a bush nocturne...
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Exhibition
ACCA Startups
This will be the fifth installment of ACCA’s Startups program. This year new video, sculpture, and multi-media works are a feature, and artists explore a range of themes and ideas about the modern world - contemporary modes of communication, modern standards...
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Exhibition
The Theatre is Lying: The inaugural Macfarlane Commissions
...by Anna Breckon and Nat Randall, Sol Calero, Consuelo Cavaniglia, Matthew Griffin and Daniel Jenatsch.
Constructed as an exhibition in five acts, The Theatre is Lying brings together artists who create alternative narratives and worlds through illusionary, cinematic and theatrical devices...
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Publication
A Constructed World: Increase your Uncertainty
Piron, Pelin Uran as well as reprinted articles and essays by A Constructed World and many more. This publication is fully illustrated, with installation documentation from the exhibition, Increase Your...
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Product
A Constructed World: Increase Your Uncertainty catalogue
Piron, Pelin Uran as well as reprinted articles and essays by A Constructed World and many more. This publication is fully illustrated, with installation documentation from the exhibition, Increase Your...
Text
Rewind: Geoff Lowe: Collaborations 1980 -1992
A Constructed WorldParis, April 7 2014It’s Monday 7:32 am, I have just read a black and white, stapled photocopy of Geoff Lowe Collaborations 1980...
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Public Programs, Education and Events
Venice Revisited invitation
A Constructed World CHANGE Forums
These events, as part of the major, monographic survey of one of Australia’s most enduring and experimental partnerships saw the spaces of ACCA activated with ad hocery and artistic spontaneity...
Press Release
Mikala Dwyer
...documenting the artists’ career. Previous artists in the series include Pat Brassington, John Nixon, Lyndal Jones, A Constructed World, Peter Cripps, and Domenico de Clario.Goldene Bend’er runs from May 25 – July 28, alongside the exhibition One of the Things that Makes Me...
Press Release
Peter Cripps
...further generations of artists. Previous artists who have exhibited in the series include Susan Norrie, Domenico de Clario, Lyndal Jones and A Constructed World.As part of the series, ACCA produces a comprehensive catalogue offering new interpretations and texts to enlarge the understanding...
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Mimi Ọnụọha: What is data?
...this definition, because it's a reminder of the fact that data doesn't just exist out in the world as some kind of unlimited resource it has to be constructed, it has to be collected.
It's also a reminder of how data is relational. Often you'll have...
Product
Before Their Flood
Before Their Flood was originally made as a limited-release zine to accompany Before Their Flood: Water Politics in the Arab World, a screening and discussion at Maysles Documentary Center in September 2023. The program, curated...
Press Release
Announcing the 2019 ACCA International Haroon Mirza
Haroon Mirza: The Construction of an Act
Featuring: Jessica Aszodi, Julie Cunningham, Sarah-Jane Lewis and James Rushford
Every year the ACCA International brings to Melbourne an artist at a pivotal point in their career – often presenting...
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2000
After a nine-month hiatus, due to a change of State Government in 1999, construction on ACCA’s new building finally got under way in October 2000 with the Federal Minister for Education and the Arts, Mary Delahunty, digging the first shovelful of earth to mark the occasion. Melbournians had...
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Product
The Theatre is Lying catalogue
...artists.
Constructed as an exhibition in five acts, curators Max Delany and Annika Kristensen have brought together artists who create alternative narratives and worlds through illusionary, cinematic and theatrical devices, including installation, misé en scene, historical re-enactment...
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Publication
The Theatre is Lying: The inaugural Macfarlane Commissions
...artists.
Constructed as an exhibition in five acts, curators Max Delany and Annika Kristensen have brought together artists who create alternative narratives and worlds through illusionary, cinematic and theatrical devices, including installation, misé en scene, historical re-enactment...
Press Release
The Theatre is Lying: The inaugural Macfarlane Commissions
...and international artists who share an interest in the construction of alternative narratives and worlds through illusionary, illusory, cinematic and theatrical devices.
Curated by ACCA Artistic Director Max Delany and Senior Curator Annika Kristensen, with new...