Collaborative exhibition project between artists and architects:

art+arch infinite in Brisbane, from 09 September to 03 October 2004

Initiators and Curators:
Professor Dr. Steffen Lehmann and Kathi Holt-Damant

A collaborative exhibition project in Brisbane will involve well-known, as well as young, still un-known, artists, architects, urban planners and landscape architects. The Concept of the Project is to have at least 15 site-specific installations at different locations all over the city, stretching from Fortitude Valley, to the CBD, to South Bank and to West End .

The culture of temporary use and temporary installation is an important urban resource, which can generate new activities and make a significant contribution to Brisbane city life. This project proposes temporary exhibitions to demonstrate the potential in interdisciplinary crossovers between artists and architects/landscape architects in urban spaces, and seeks to reveal the unique character of these places.

Choose a Location: Using prominent places, such as galleries, as well as little known spaces such as lane ways and alleyways off the CBD, or under-croft spaces along the river, artists and architects will collaborate in site-specific installations to present a new view, context, concept or landscape.

A book of the selected exhibits - an independent jury will ensure a high standard - together with the new "art+arch map" of Brisbane, and a collection of critical texts by prominent writers, artists and architects, will be published.

A joint lecture series entitled "Absolutely Public" will also accompany the exhibition project.

The exhibition will be on show from 09 September until 03 October 2004, parallel to the Brisbane Festival.

Four major themes have been identified:

• People and Public Space: strategies against commercialisation of public space, privatisation and internalisation of public space, the Region and the metropolitan centre
• Crossovers and interdisciplinary collaboration: new possibilities for combinations and interpretations, globalisation and cultural difference, cultural translation
• Mobility and the River: mass mobility, urban sprawl, networks, infrastructure, the river potentials, bridges
• The sub-tropical climate: territory, horizon, built-up space versus green space, topography, indigenous sites, the sub-tropics, landscape, garden.

Schedule:

Publication and Call for Participation February 2004
Hand-in for project proposals 7th May 2004
Jury to select installations/participants around 15 May 2004
Press conference and publication of book 03 September 2004
Exhibition 09 September to 03 October 2004
Organised tours to all installations 11 and 18 September 2004
Lectures and podium discussion 16 September 2004

Please submit your proposal to:

Kathi Holt-Damant , Lecturer in Architecture
Department of Architecture
University of Queensland, Brisbane Qld 4072

or:

Professor Dr. Steffen Lehmann , Chair in Architecture
D-Block, room D524
Gardens Point Campus
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Qld 4001

The project is supported by the following institutions:

• BCC Brisbane City Council
• Queensland Government - Public Art Agency, Arts Queensland
• South-Bank Corporation
• The Royal Australian Institute of Architects RAIA
• Year of the Built Environment 2004 Committee
• Brisbane Festival

The Advisory Board and Selection Panel consists of:

• Emerita Professor Helen Armstrong (Landscape Architecture, QUT)
• John Stafford (Executive Manager, Public Art Agency, Arts Qld)
• Bill Grant (Chairman of the South Bank Business Assoc. Board)
• Professor Michael Keniger (Government Architect, Department of Public Works)
• Jay Younger (Artist, QCA)
• Dr. John Simpson (Architect)
• Chetana Andary (Public Art and Design, BCC)
• James Coutts (Urban Management, BCC)

For further Information:

s.lehmann@qut.edu.au or: k.holtdamant@uq.edu.au