PUBLIC TALK: Working with uncertainty: a discussion on exhibiting new art

Three curators and exhibition managers discuss their work with artists in developing exhibitions where the outcomes are uncertain and the focus is on opportunities for growth and experimentation.

Hannah Mathews, Exhibition Manager, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; Alli Doherty, Visual Arts Coordinator, Artrage & Breadbox Gallery; and Michelle Siciliano, Manager, Spectrum Project Space.

This talk is in relation to the exhibition 'flux2' on display at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery until 2 November.

'flux2' includes work by six artists from Western Australia, all of whom are in the early stages of their careers. The exhibition covers a wide territory, including a performance based on Busby Berkeley and Hollywood musicals; photographs of anonymous city locations at night; a game of mini golf that combines model making and Iraq war politics; fleshy abstract painting alongside photographs of details of domestic furnishings; and geo-politics, mapping and information design. The works allude to the history of art, to popular culture, politics, urban spaces and to the intersections of economics and geography, yet remain open-ended, never becoming didactic. The artists are open to a world in which boundaries of life, art and everything else become fluid, and where change is a constant.