Presented at the West Wing, Melbourne 2010: How Can a Network….? is the latest in the South Project’s interactions between cultural practitioners on the southern hemisphere. On view are selected projects devised by artists, poets, and others who have responded to this question in a variety of unique and stimulating ways. These range from the generation of collections of images and texts that represent people’s connections to distant places or using a network to collaboratively create video and performative works to collating ‘what cannot be collected’ from ideas submitted via a virtual network of unseen participants.

Each concept is an imaginative response to the question of ways of activating people and places by means of a network. Some were planned as hypotheses only, others evolved to works in process, and a number fully intended to be realised by the artist either for this exhibition of ideas or at a future time. All were originated by artists in diverse locations to be seen in Melbourne for this South Project event.

ARTISTS INCLUDE:
Esther Anatolitis (Melbourne, Australia)
Chris Barry (Melbourne, Australia)
Chris Braddok (Waiuku, New Zealand)
Marina Camargo (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Fiona Davies (Blue Mountains, Australia)
Leuli Eshraghi (Melbourne, Australia)
Claudia del Fierro (Santiago, Chile)
Tamara Marwood (Bendigo, Australia)
John Mateer (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Gabby O’Connor (Wellington, New Zealand)
Perdita Phillips (Perth, Australia)
Stepahnie Radok (Adelaide, Australia)
Joned Suryatmoko (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
El Tarro (Melbourne, Australia / Colombia)
Tim Webster (Melbourne, Australia)
Pacific Womens’ Weaving Circle (Melbourne, Australia)
Peter Westwood (Melbourne, Australia)

Artist Talks: Saturday 27 November, 11-12pm
Pacific Womens' Weaving Workshop: Saturday 27 November, 1-5pm
Artist Workshop – Esther Anatolitis: Saturday 4 December, 1-3pm

Opening Night: Friday 26 November 6-8pm