“Structural Integrity”
Greatest Hits, Veronica Kent, Alanna Lorenzon, Rowan McNaught, Scott Mitchell, Brunswick Secondary College Science-Art Club, Safari Team, Benjamin Sheppard, Nick Waddell, Jordan Wood and Nicki Wynnychuk
14 May → 29 May 2010

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‘Structural Integrity’, 2010, group exhibition curated by Next Wave Festival Inc., Meat Market, 2010. Photography courtesy of Next Wave Festival Inc.

Structural Integrity is a monumental and melancholic World’s Fair-styled exhibition and residency initiative that is a keynote project for Next Wave.

Exploring independent arts cultures from across Australia and Asia, Structural Integrity includes the work of six Australian and five Asian Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs) including West Space.

Working on-site at the Meat Market in the month leading up to Next Wave, each artist group created a large-scale structure, or ‘pavilion’, inside this vast historical building. The pavilion structure has long been loaded with cultural values and ideals: think of the grand expositions of the 19th Century, or of the Venice Biennale. With this in mind, each pavilion in Structural Integrity will be developed as an expression of the participating ARIs’ artistic principles in relation to their particular cultural or geographic situation.

Playfully questioning the values and ideals that motivated many of these grand international fairs and expositions, Structural Integrity examines national and local cultural identity through the lens of innovative contemporary arts practice, taking in the shared, as well as distinctive, characteristics of grass-roots artistic culture across the region.

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Greatest Hits is a collaboration between Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn.

Veronica Kent is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.

Alanna Lorenzon

Rowan McNaught is an artist and designer in Naarm/Melbourne. Rowan is co-founder of West Space Journal, and a PhD candidate at Melbourne University's Victorian College of the Arts.

Scott Mitchell is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.

Brunswick Secondary College Science-Art Club

Safari Team are an artist collective founded in 2005 by Lillian O’Neil, Blaine Cooper, and Jon Oldmeadow. They formed while studying Fine Art at Monash University, and have exhibited across Melbourne, Sydney, Italy and Canada.

Benjamin Sheppard

Nick Waddell is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.

Jordan Wood is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.

Nicki Wynnychuk is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.