What is the the workshop?

Over two workshops, participants will collaborate to produce a temporary outdoor artwork to be presented at the University of Melbourne Parkville Campus.

These workshops are free and open to students from all academic disciplines.

Catering will be provided.

This project is about sharing views, vision and different perspectives.

Site lines will conceptually build on the construction site at the New Student Precinct. Participants will develop a series of viewing devices that act as creative platforms to prompt discussion with and about the University of Melbourne community: seeing in / out / within.

Workshop participants will develop and build custom viewing devices from a range of found objects – from mirrors, lenses and tripods to familiar domestic items. Throughout the workshops, participating students will engage in discussions about the politics of vision ranging from surveillance, voyeurism, the human eye and the mediated image.

A series of portraits of workshop participants in situ will be printed as paste-ups and installed on hoardings around the New Student Precinct at the Parkville Campus.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Public Assembly is collaboration between Lynda Roberts and Ceri Hann and is a socially engaged practice working at the intersection between art and design.

Established in 2007, Public Assembly acts as a creative laboratory, generating ideas through action.  Their practice is driven by the desire to enable others with skills and inspiration to creatively engage with their immediate environment.