6 December 2021 – 7 March 2022
Gene Bawden and Monash University XYX Lab
Keep running 2021
street posters and billboards
Courtesy Gene Bawden and XYX Lab
Offsite
XYX Lab are a design and cultural research collective based at Monash University, who are known for their ground-breaking data visualisation projects addressing gendered experiences of violence, safety and public space.
Keep running 2021 is an urban street poster and billboard project, distributed in hundreds of sites across Melbourne with three major works in South Melbourne, St Kilda and Clayton. These sites have been determined as an outcome of citizen-contributed stories and concerns raised within XYX Lab’s online mapping project YourGround 2021.
The data collated by YourGround reflects how particular locations are experienced and perceived by women and gender-diverse people. The title of this project, Keep running, was drawn from a response by an individual describing the only plausible action they could take if they were to be confronted within a particularly dark pedestrian tunnel.
For Keep running, XYX Lab have worked site-specifically to situate these narratives within the locations they describe. Gene Bawden’s eye-catching, hyper-graphic designs for the street posters and billboards invite audiences to reflect on their surroundings and, as XYX Lab note, the ‘concurrent intersectional realities that define spatial inequality and gender inequity in cities.’
Nicole Kalms, Founding Director
Gene Bawden, Co-Director
Jess Berry, Senior Researcher
Gill Matthewson, Researcher
Isabella Webb, Designer and Project Facilitator
A poster from this project will also be presented at ACCA, in the Project Space: The Hoarding over the duration of the exhibition.
Access:
Please contact ACCA if you have any further queries about access and this event 03 9697 9999 or info@acca.melbourne
