Keiran Boland, Makerspace RMIT

• A space to experiment, explore and realise creative ideas through exploration and
  collaboration.

Andy Tetzlaff, RMIT Intersect

• 6 spaces - PROJECT SPACE, SPARE ROOM, SITUATE, SITE EIGHT, the LIGHTSCAPES and SPEAKER.
• Dynamic program of exhibitions, residencies, creative laboratories, talks and events

Artists of interest to explore

• Mi Won Kwon - Site Specific
• Jonathan Jones, Skin and Bone 2016 – Funded by John Kaldor 
• Soa Paolo The Green Line (alys Frances) - Heide The Blue Line
• Claire Doherty, The Situationalists
• Future Library Video
• Ross Coulter, SLV, Paper Planes
• Olafur Eliasson, Waterfall
• Cat Jones, Empathetic Limb
• Denis Glover

Andy, Testing Grounds Get
involved: www.testing-grounds.com.au/

Lynda Roberts, Public Office

Snapshot of Melbourne’s PA history highlights – current day context – experience working
within a government institution and trying to forge innovative approaches to PA
– challenges of who decides what we experience and where?

Started at Testing Grounds and went through areas underdevelopment near the New Arts Precinct and NGV.

• Engaging community
  in decision-making - Institution v’s artist
• Leveraging
  partnerships assisting with small budgets for PA
• Playful approach
  to thinking in the public
• Institutions
  adoption of artists art and ideas (previously discouraged) NGV artwork taken
  inside – trogon horse
• NGV Artist activation
  – Security company (fired) – creative making change