10 - 19 April 2015
A celebration of art and ideas
Cover image: Nespoon, Warsaw. 2013. Photograph courtesy of the artist.
“...teacups travelled with the women as they moved from floor to floor throughout their 3-year stay...this artwork pays homage to the times shared and women who lived in this building during its life as nurses’ accommodation, a memorial to the end of the era, when the nurses would socialise over cups of tea. This is also a significant ritual of the people who now inhabit the space, as they congregate over cups of tea and conversation...” Eva Fernandez, artist in residence at 100 Hampton Road lodging house, PUBLIC community housing engagement, 2014-2015, as part of FORM’s PUBLIC.
After the Tea Party (detail). Eva Fernandez, photographic print, dimensions variable, 2014.
“Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in�. Theaster Gates
A note from FORM
Friends,
It is with great pleasure that we bring you the 2015 PUBLIC Symposium. PUBLIC is a celebration of art and ideas. The symposium sits within PUBLIC’s diverse programme of artwork, openings, events and labs. The symposium speakers are trailblazers from around the world who have been drawn from a range of backgrounds and practices to provide a variety of experiences and perspectives. Through conversation and insightful presentations, the programme will illuminate and provoke discussion about how ambition, creativity and art can create happier and smarter cities. It examines how these ingredients can nurture healthy places and communities as they transform and renew.
The FORM Team
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PUBLIC LabS
AN INTRODUCTION
A series of labs, masterclasses and site tours around the symposium event will offer the chance to engage more closely with speakers, understand initiatives in action and get creative. Details and ticketing to be announced in March.
ABOUT PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM
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New knowledge, new ideas and new contacts,
At FORM, we believe that the best, most vibrant
the PUBLIC Symposium will inspire change and
places to live are the ones that nurture dynamic
creativity. The Symposium nurtures connections
creativity, showcase cultural diversity, insist on
and possibilities through opportunities to meet
quality, and are shaped with people in mind.
and engage with creative leaders, whilst providing real case studies and problem solving in action. You can meet the people driving innovation in the creative sector and be immersed in the dynamic ideas driving cities, creative activity, entrepreneurship, and collaboration. Along with the dialogue, artwork and events that intersperse the speaker programme this rich and immersive experience will benefit a range of the creative sectors. It is a rich and fertile resource for
FORM sees the transformative power of creativity as having the capacity to generate a richer community and cultural life in Western Australia. Creativity is the means by which many challenges are resolved, opportunities developed and learning and growth enabled. It also contributes fundamentally to shaping distinctive ‘cultural geography’ – the elements that make a community and the place it inhabits unique and specific.
planning, architecture, arts curatorship and design, along with media, marketing, academia, students
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entrepreneurs and social innovators. If you want to know more about PUBLIC visit: The symposium is set against a backdrop of a city in the process of transformation as a group of muralists descend on the Perth streets amidst events, openings, labs and masterclasses. The atmosphere of change and energy provides an experience for visitors and those that live here.
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Photograph by Luke Shirlaw, 2014. 7
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#PUBLICSymposium Program schedule
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DAY ONE Registration Opens Welcome to Country Opening address
FORM introduction and opening remarks
Enrique Peñalosa Colombia
11.00 Morning Session:
PUBLIC SPACE OUR TIME IS NOW: CULTURE, CREATIVITY & THE PEOPLE IN CITY MAKING
1.30
CHARLES LANDRY UK CAROL COLETTA USA RIDWAN KAMIL INDONESIA THOM AUSSEMS NETHERLANDS
30 minute sessions speakers in conversation with Moderator
Enjoy a series of Q & A sessions that allow you to engage in conversation directly with speakers over lunch.
Lunch Lunchtime Lounge
2.30 Afternoon Session:
PUBLIC ACTION BE THE CHANGE: INSPIRED LEADERSHIP & CITIZEN INITIATIVES
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GEETA MEHTA, URBZ USA/INDIA TIMO SANTALA FINLAND PETER CORBETT USA ERMA RAINIERI AUS
30 minute sessions speakers in conversation with Alison Page
Closing remarks SYMPOSIUM OPENING EVENT
Recrafted: Nandita Kumar (India) and Nespoon (Poland) Symposium Opening Party and Exhibition Opening, FORM Gallery 6.00 – 8.00 pm
“The cities we are going to build over the next 50 years will determine quality of life and even happiness for billions of people towards the future. What a fantastic opportunity for leaders and many young leaders, especially in the developing countries. They can create a much happier life for billions towards the future. I am sure, I am optimistic, that they will make cities better than our most ambitious dreams.” Enrique Peñalosa
The city emerges from the interplay of diverse elements and principles, expectations and opportunities, purpose and vision, tensions and contradictions. Within these competing forces what is the role of creativity in the public realm and why is it important in the making of a city? As our cities enter a new phase of development how can we seize the opportunities of individual and collective creativity as a force for realising the city’s potential? What is the role of creativity in bringing together our communities, cities and region? What are the conditions that nurture courage and risk, entrepreneurship and innovation?
Enrique Peñalosa columbia Enrique Peñalosa is an urban strategist and Board President at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy of New York, and the former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia.
Timo Santala finland Timo Santala is a Finnish journalist, photographer and concept designer, and the founder of quarterly global food festival Restaurant Day, and the We Love Helsinki movement.
Power of Place Exhibition & PUBLIC Hub open downstairs on William Street
In re-imagining the public realm and expanding civic engagement cities can be re-activated and renewed. Exploring citizen led initiatives and examples of leadership in action, the sessions explore the design and implementation of initiatives that work with creatives to energise city and community, solve problems and create opportunities for innovation.
Geeta Mehta india Geeta Mehta is an adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Columbia University. She is the founder of non-profit Asia Initiatives, through which she developed the concept of Social Capital Credits, a ‘virtual currency’ for social good.
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DAY two PUBLIC Perth : Changemakers Cafe
Join us for a morning coffee and enjoy some of Perth’s finest creative movers and shakers present short sessions revealing work that is catalysing change in the city.
Ridwan Kamil
Opening address:
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THEASTER THEASTERGATES GATESUSAUSA SPEAKER JOHN BELA (TBC)USA SINGAPORE KENSONKWOK KWOKSINGAPORE DRDRKENSON AUSTRALIA HETTI HETTIPERKINS PERKINSAUSTRALIA
Morning Session:
PUBLIC ART Art & the City
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Enjoy a series of Q & A sessions that allow you to engage in conversation directly with speakers over lunch.
Lunchtime Lounge
2.00 Afternoon Session: Part 1
PUBLIC CULTURE POWERFUL COLLABORATIONS & BLURRED BOUNDARIES
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PAUL COLLARD UK Jesper Christiansen Denmark LEO VAN LOON NETHERL ANDS ALISON PAGE AUSTRALIA
Closing remarks SYMPOSIUM SOCIAL:
Symposium drinks, 6 - 8pm
30 minute sessions In conversation with Geeta Mehta
“The creative industries are attracting increasing attention from governments around the world, not only because they are now seen as being a significant sector of the economy in their own right, but because they are also seen as drivers of innovation and growth across the economy as a whole.” PAUL COLLARD
Art can transform our environments and how we use them. Artists and curators are increasingly playing a role in enlivening our environment, transforming the urban landscape and contesting what is possible in cities. As expanded engagement practices take art beyond the realm of aesthetics, artists, curators and creative directors explore how to activate the public realm and examine the potentialities of art in the public sphere, its limitations and possibilities.
RIDWAN KAMIL indonesia Ridwan Kamil is an Indonesian architect and academic, and the current Mayor of Bandung, a city which is rapidly positioning itself as an emerging creative centre. Kamil was awarded the British Council’s Young Creative Entrepreneur award for Indonesia in 2006, and was named Architect of the Year by Elle Décor magazine in 2009.
ALISON PAGE AUSTRALIA Alison Page is an award-winning creative at the forefront of contemporary Australian Aboriginal design. as a leading force in the Australian design scene, she champions the contemporary creative expression of Aboriginal identity.
Increasingly creative crossovers and collaborations across cultures, disciplines and sectors that weave together past and present, heritage and future, are revealing different ways of working, knowledge and being in the world. From our built environment to new models for cultural spaces, organizations, projects, and education, hybrid practices that have creativity at their core are fostering innovative approaches to a range of challenges and generating new products, services, financing and solutions.
Theaster Gates usa Theaster Gates is an artist, curator, urbanist and cultural planner. He is the founder of Chicago’s Rebuild Foundation, and Director of Arts and Public Life at the University of Chicago.
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DAY three Introduction
Morning Session:
PUBLIC Community INVENTION, PLACE & STREET LIFE: FROM LITTLE THINGS BIG THINGS GROW
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30 minute sessions In conversation with Moderator
Lunch
PUBLIC PANEL IDENTITY TODAY & INTO THE FUTURE
Partner Event rEVEALED: Emerging aboriginal artists from WA Venue: Gallery Central, Central Institute of Technology, 12 Aberdeen St Northbridge
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JOSH MCMANUS USA usa john bela JOSH MCMANUS (USA) INTERNATIONAL STREET STREET ARTISTSARTISTS Enrique Peñalosa
The Indigenous The Indigenous arts have artsplayed have played a key role a key in role in Australia’s Australia’s cultural cultural life. How life.has How Indigenous has Indigenous cultureculture shapedshaped a distinctive a distinctive and unique and unique cultural cultural identity? identity? How does Howadoes vibrant a vibrant Indigenous Indigenous cultural cultural life life contribute contribute to a healthier to a healthier society? society?
The Revealed exhibition showcases art by emerging Western Australian Aboriginal artists, across a variety of artistic mediums and with a diverse range of styles. The majority of these artists come from regional and remote areas of the State, ranging from Kalumburu in the far north, to Albany in the south. Artworks are for sale and admission is free. The income and exposure for the artists on show develops their art practice.
“This is the land of dreamings, a land of wide horizons and secret places. The first people, our ancestors, created this country in the culture that binds us to it�. HETTI PERKINS
The challenges for cities to remain vibrant and liveable are immense. Creatives are leading the way in developing non-traditional approaches to community building and place making. The creative sector is responding to the challenges of our urban environment with a sense of enterprise, adventure and innovation. Similarly, leaders are turning to creative solutions. What is the role of invention and rebellion in transformational cultural projects? How are design processes and creative practice impacting our cities, and, what do they look like? What new forms of community are emerging?
Hetti Perkins australia Hetti Perkins is a member of the northern Arrernte and Kalkadoon Aboriginal communities. She wrote and presented the national documentary series, art + soul, for ABC Television in 2010 and 2014, and until recently was Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the Art Gallery of NSW.
josh mcManus USA Join us for a conversation about the rich cultural practices, knowledge systems, and innovation that characterise Australian Indigenous Culture. Artists and creative practitioners open up new ways of thinking about our place in the world, our cities and our built environment. Panelists will discuss their work in remote and urban Australia.
Josh McManus is an advocate for the use of design in advancing social, cultural and economic progress. Currently Program Director at the Knight Foundation, McManus has a range of expertise in the areas of civic action, talent development and place making with a particular focus on redeveloping local economies through small enterprise.
On Friday from 1 – 5pm, Revealed will host at the State Library of WA Theatre, Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge speakers thrashing out issues and celebrating unique artistic achievements. On Saturday, an Art Marketplace will take place at the Urban Orchard, Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge, where Aboriginal art centres will display and sell an exciting range of work directly to the public. Visit http://revealed.net.au/
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the speakers
“The reality in the neighbourhood that I live in is: if I don’t constantly reconcile what I have against what other people don’t, either I need to leave and be around other people who have what I have, or I’m constantly engaged in this kind of dynamic flow of opportunity and sharing.” THEASTER GATES
keynote speaker
enrique Peñalosa colombia Enrique Peñalosa is an urban strategist and Board President at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy of New York, and the former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia. As Mayor of Bogota from 1998 to 2001, Peñalosa profoundly transformed the city and its 8 million residents, making it an international case study for increased quality of life, mobility and equity as a result of innovative urban planning. Peñalosa is internationally recognised as a visionary in city transformation, his advisory work focusing on mobility, public space and quality of life. His ideas have significantly influenced policy in numerous cities, and he has lectured and been profiled in influential media across the globe. He is currently a member of the Transportation Reinvention Commission appointed by the Governor of New York, and a scholar of the Institute of Urban Research of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of Citiscope Board of Directors and sits on the London School of Economics Cities Program Advisory Board. Peñalosa is also a published journalist and author, and has been awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship, the National Simon Bolivar Prize for Journalism and the Prize of the Society of Economists of Bogotá and Cundinamarca. He was Green Party candidate to the Presidency of Colombia in the 2014 elections.
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MAYOR Ridwan Kamil indonesia Ridwan Kamil is an Indonesian architect and academic, and the current Mayor of Bandung, a city which is rapidly positioning itself as an emerging creative centre. Kamil was awarded the British Council’s Young Creative Entrepreneur award for Indonesia in 2006, and was named Architect of the Year by Elle Décor magazine in 2009. He is currently a lecturer in the Department of Architecture, Institut Technology Bandung, and co-founder of architecture firm Urbane Indonesia in 2004, listed in the BCI Asia Top 10 Awards from 2008 to 2010 and again in 2012. Kamil was the founder of the Helarfest festival, which celebrates the diversity of culture in Bandung from traditional batik art, to the city’s distinctive death metal music scene. Kamil was additionally a pioneer of the Indonesian Berkebun movement, a community garden project established in fourteen Indonesian cities to date.
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Thom aussems netherlands Thom Aussems is a Dutch authority in urban renewal and city transformation. He is the CEO of Trudo, a housing association and consultancy in the south Netherlands region of Eindhoven. Aussems holds a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Tilburg, and a qualification in community work from the Social Academy in Eindhoven. He spent his early career undertaking community work and contributing to a number of urban renewal projects, settling in the municipality of Rotterdam during the 1980s based upon its reputation as a world leader in urban renewal. Following a decade in Rotterdam, Aussems founded Trudo, providing consultancy to clients ranging from town councils and major housing associations and building companies, to private landlords. During his 15 years at Trudo, he has lead a number of innovative transformation projects, including the renewal of several declining urban neighbourhoods, regional estates, and former industrial sites, schools and architectural landmarks. Aussems additionally holds Masters degrees in Real Estate, Economics and Business Administration.
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John Bela usa John Bela is a pioneer in user-generated urbanism, and a public space designer based at Gehl Studio, San Francisco. He combines a background in art, science and environmental design to create dynamic and resilient urban human habitats. Through consultancy and innovation studio, Rebar Group, Bela was a co-founder of PARK(ing) Day, a global event in which artists, designers and creatives transform metered parking bays into pop-up spaces for shared community enjoyment. Gehl Studio is the American office of Gehl Architects, a public space design consultancy with a 45-year history in assisting major cities to refine and improve their public spaces. Prior to joining Gehl, Bela was a cofounder of Rebar Group, developing some of the initiative’s most memorable and groundbreaking work. In addition to PARK(ing) Day, he conceived projects ranging from inflatable street furniture and community infrastructure created from repurposed materials, to SOAK, a sustainable, pop-up public spa occupying a cluster of shipping containers, and Parkcycle, the world’s first pedal-powered public park. Bela is a registered Landscape Architect in the state of California and lectures and teaches worldwide, this includes positions as a Senior Lecturer at the California College of Arts in San Francisco, and a Distinguished Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds degrees in Landscape Architecture, Environmental Design, Biochemistry from the University of Massachusetts, and in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 21
Jesper Christiansen denmark Jesper Christiansen is Head of Research at Danish public human-centred design unit, MindLab. Christiansen holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology focusing on the creative practices of human-centred innovation processes, in particular in the context of public policy, management and governance. He has published a number of articles based on this research and currently directs research and learning across MindLab’s projects and partnerships. He has also functioned as program manager of MindLab’s collaboration with the Danish Ministry of Employment, transforming its approach to policy making. Christiansen has worked with policy development and user-centred innovation and presented and consulted in the field of public sector and systematic innovation, new public service systems and development-oriented ethnography and anthropology. In his consultancies he has worked with and advised various Governments around the world, as well as having partnered with a number of non-government organisations, design businesses and local innovation units. He is also an external lecturer on social and human-centred innovation and public policy and design on Masters and graduate modules at Universities in Copenhagen and Aarhus. Christiansen has recently initiated Designing Dignity – a collaborative movement to build human-centred systems that create better outcomes for vulnerable and marginalized citizens. He holds an additional degree in Journalism. 22
Paul Collard uk Paul Collard is the CEO of Creativity, Culture and
CCE now supports programs modelled on Creative
Education (CCE), an international foundation
Partnerships in the Czech Republic, Germany,
dedicated to unlocking the creativity of
Hungary, Lithuania, Norway and Pakistan, is advising
children and young people both in and out of
the Scottish and Welsh Governments and the City of
formal education. He is an expert in delivering
Amsterdam on their creative and cultural learning
programs that use creativity and culture as
strategies, and has recently provided training for
drivers of social and economic change and has
educationalists and creative practitioners in Australia,
a particular interest in the role of arts in urban
Estonia, Holland, Korea, Qatar, Sweden, Taiwan and
regeneration.
Vietnam.
Collard joined the British Government’s
Collard has also managed the Institute of
flagship creative learning program, Creative
Contemporary Arts in London, been deputy
Partnerships, in 2005 and played a crucial role
controller of the British Film Institute in London,
in clarifying its purpose and streamlining the
director of the UK Year of Visual Arts in the north east
delivery of the program in schools. He later led
of England and Director of the International Festival
a relaunch of the Creative Partnerships schools
of Arts and Ideas in Connecticut, USA. In 2011 he
programme for around 2,300 schools in England
was a recipient of a World Innovation Summit for
annually, while also assuming responsibility for
Education Award, recognizing innovative projects
Find Your Talent, the government’s pilot cultural
that address global educational challenges.
offer for children and young people.
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Carol Coletta usa Carol Coletta is internationally regarded as
Smart City Radio programme, and run Memphis-
an expert on the development of cities, and
based public affairs consulting firm Coletta &
frequently listed as one of the world’s 50 most
Company, focused on civic issues. In 2003 she was
important urban thinkers. She has written and
named a Knight Fellow in Community Building at
spoken extensively on the future of cities, how
the University of Miami School Of Architecture,
they can nurture, attract and retain creative talent,
and she was the recipient of the Lamda Alpha
and strategies for increasing their vibrancy.
International 2009 International Journalism
Coletta graduated summa cum laude from the University of Memphis with Majors in Journalism
From 2011-2013 she was founding Director of
and Public Issues Management, and has completed
ArtPlace America, an initiative that brings together
graduate work in future studies at the University of
leading private foundations, the United States’
Houston Clear Lake, and in design at the Institute
National Endowment for the Arts, other federal
of Design in Chicago.
agencies and major banks to accelerate creative
She is a former president and CEO of CEOs for
place making in communities across the country.
Cities, a network of urban leaders from across
She is currently Vice President of National and
the United States committed to facilitating urban
Community Initiatives for journalism, arts and
vibrancy and renewal. She has served as Executive
community engagement non-profit, the Knight
Director of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design,
Foundation.
produced and hosted the nationally-syndicated
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Award.
Theaster Gates country Peter Corbett usa Peter Corbett built his career as an advertising agency strategist and tireless champion of
making government services simple, effective, and
Theaster Gates country
innovation, and has become a globally-sought-
after speaker and mentor in marketing innovation, widely known for his business acumen, technical experience and focus on community building. He is founder and CEO of iStrategyLabs which develops innovative digital solutions for clients including Audi, Coca-Cola, Disney, ESPN, Ford, Hilton, Microsoft, Volkswagen and the US Army.
easy to use.
Corbett has won multiple industry awards and accolades including being named 2014 Entrepreneur of the Year by Emory University, and one of Washington Business Journal’s ‘Power 100’ in 2014. He is frequently called upon by media institutions including Good Morning America, Time Magazine, NPR, The Washington Post, CNN.com, Inc. Magazine, WIRED and
Corbett and iStrategyLabs devised Apps for
GigaOm to provide his perspective on technology,
Democracy, an innovation contest for technology
entrepreneurship and innovation.
development amongst talented citizens which generated 47 iPhone, Facebook and web applications with an estimated value in excess of $2,300,000. It has since inspired more than 50 similar projects around the world including Apps for Europe, for which Corbett was named an adviser. He is also an adviser to Code for America, an organisation that builds open source technology via a network of people dedicated to
Corbett has mentored numerous startup accelerator classes, advised hundreds of early stage tech companies, founded the massive DC Tech Meetup and created the DCWEEK festival. He remains a definitive connector and leader among Washington DC’s creative and technology communities, having spent years as a grassroots organizer driven to build a healthy ecosystem for entrepreneurs in the US capital.
theaster gates usa Theaster Gates is an artist, curator, urbanist and
Gates has received awards and grants from Creative
cultural planner. He is the founder of Chicago’s
Time, United States Artists, Creative Capital, the Joyce
Rebuild Foundation, and Director of Arts and
Foundation, the Graham Foundation, the Bemis
Public Life at the University of Chicago.
Centre for Contemporary Arts, and Artadia. He was
‘Gates’ art practice transforms spaces, institutions, traditions and perceptions, incorporating space development, object
honoured by the Wall Street Journal as Arts Innovator of the Year in 2012, and awarded the inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics in 2014.
making, performance and critical engagement.
Gates has exhibited and performed at the Studio
His understanding of arts and culture in
Museum in Harlem, Whitechapel Gallery in London,
community engagement and public life
Punta della Dogana in Venice, the Museum of
is supported by his expertise as a planner.
Contemporary Art Chicago, the Santa Barbara
Through the non-profit Rebuild Foundation he
Museum of Art, and at Documenta 13 in Kassel,
catalyses neighbourhood revitalization through
Germany.
artistic practice, successfully transforming many of Chicago’s abandoned buildings into lively social spaces.
dr Kenson kwoksingapore Dr Kwok graduated as an architect from the University of Sydney in 1972, and obtained his PhD in environmental psychology from University College London in 1983. On returning to his native Singapore he worked in government and academic positions including two decades at the National Heritage Board of Singapore. As the founding director of the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM), he opened three new museum sites and expanded the museums’ collections and sponsorship base, helping set new standards for museum curating, display and design in Singapore. During this time he oversaw the organisation of over 60 special projects, including exhibitions from India, the Vatican Museums, the British Museum and the Palace Museum, Beijing. Dr Kwok was a member of the Executive Committee of ASEMUS (Asia-Europe Museums Network) from its inception, and a member of the United Overseas Bank Art Committee as well as the advisory committee of the Lee Kong Chian Art Museum, National University of Singapore. Since his retirement, he has continued to be involved in the museum sector, on committees of the Indian Heritage Centre and National University of Singapore Museums. He is currently on the board of the National Gallery, which will strengthen Singapore’s role as a regional and international hub for the visual arts. In addition to the award of the Public Administration Medal (silver) by the Singapore government, Dr Kwok was also conferred Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur, by France.
Charles Landry uk Charles Landry is a writer and international authority on the use of creativity in facilitating urban change. He founded the concept of the Creative City during the 1980s, triggering a global movement that changed how we think about our cities and their capabilities. He is the founder of Comedia, a globally-oriented consultancy company working in culture, creativity and urban change. Through Comedia, Landry assists cities across the globe to become more prosperous, culturally confident, resilient and self-sustaining, by triggering their inventiveness and imaginative thinking. Landry has collaborated with several hundred cities, advising key decision makers and local leaders in the role of a critical friend. Landry is the author of The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators, The Art of City Making and The Intercultural City: Planning for Diversity Advantage, the latter co-written with Phil Wood. He recently launched a range of illustrated publications, The Sensory Landscape of Cities, The Origins and Futures of the Creative City, The Creative City Index: Measuring the Pulse of the City, Culture & Commerce, and The Fragile City & the Risk Nexus.
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Leo van loon netherlands Leo van Loon (MsC) is the co-founder and owner of creative industries incubator Creative Factory Rotterdam, and co-founder of the European Creative Business Network. Van Loon was born in the Netherlands, in 1976. He studied business economics at Erasmus University, co-founding his company, PopVox, while still a student. PopVox’s name derives from the Latin Vox Populis, or ‘voice of the people’, reflecting van Loon’s commitment to supporting democratic ideals within society. PopVox and van Loon’s major areas of interest are talent development, entrepreneurship and the creative industries. He specializes in research, advice and the facilitation of alliances between governments and their (often hard to reach) target groups, or small creative businesses and large corporations. Creative Factory Rotterdam occupies a huge, repurposed, canal-side grain silo owned by the City of Rotterdam. The building houses 74 creative businesses including designers, music producers, fashion photographers and architects. These companies are supported by the Factory’s corporate partners and a program of interns from the tertiary sector. Resident companies are encouraged to collaborate between each other and the Factory’s corporate partners, facilitating faster and more sustainable growth. The European Creative Business Network was co-founded by van Loon together with 11 agencies from 8 countries. The Network aims to make the European Union an increasingly accessible, effective and rewarding single market for cultural entrepreneurs. Its activities are executed by van Loon’s company PopVox.
Geeta Mehta india Dr. Geeta Mehta is an adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Columbia University, New York. She is the founder and President of non-profit Asia Initiatives, through which she developed the concept of Social Capital Credits, a ‘virtual currency’ for social good. Social Capital Credits are currently in operation in five sites in India, Ghana and Costa Rica, incentivizing projects in healthcare, education, waste management, tree planting, community art, and river restoration. She is the co-founder of Mumbai based URBZ: User Generated Cities, which highlights the potential of underserved communities to transform themselves into vibrant neighbourhoods using art, cultural activism and home improvements. Mehta also serves as an advisor to the Millennium Cities Initiatives at the Earth Institute and is the past president of the American Institute of Architects’ Japan Chapter. Mehta has presented seminars and design studios in Austria, Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Ghana, India, Jamaica, Kenya and the Ukraine. She is the co-author of five books on Japanese design and architecture, and numerous publications with Columbia University’s Urban Design Studio. Mehta received her education from the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi and Columbia University, and earned her Ph.D. in Urban Engineering from the University of Tokyo.
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Alison Page AUSTRALIA Alison Page is an award-winning creative at the forefront of contemporary Australian Aboriginal design. As a descendant of the Walbanga and Wadi Wadi people of the Yuin nation, and as a leading force in the Australian design scene, she champions the contemporary creative expression of Aboriginal identity. Page’s creative practice explores links between cultural identity, art and the built environment. As one of three associates of Merrima Design from 1995-1999, she worked with various Aboriginal communities in the delivery of culturally appropriate architectural services. She founded her own interior design studio in 1999 and has since completed projects spanning interiors, public art, installations and film. Page’s work with Merrima Design was awarded by the International Federation of Interior Architects for its “contribution to the design environment with an emphasis on social awareness and responsibility”, and profiled in Phaidon’s Architecture for Architects Atlas. In 2008 she received a NSW Local Government Culture Award for Six Daughters of the West Wind, a series of bronze sculptures on Mt Keira in Wollongong created in collaboration with artist Tina Lee, and an Australian Jewellery Design Award for her contemporary Aboriginal diamond jewellery. Until recently, Alison was the founding CEO of the Saltwater Freshwater Arts Alliance and Director of their annual Saltwater Freshwater festival. She was the founder of the National Aboriginal Design Agency, and was a member of the expert panel for the federal government’s Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous People. She appeared for eight years as a regular panelist on the ABC TV show, The New Inventors. 31
Hetti Perkins australia Hetti Perkins is a member of the northern Arrernte and Kalkadoon Aboriginal communities. She is Creative Director of Corroboree Sydney and curatorial advisor to the City of Sydney on the Eora Journey, which involves the commissioning of a series of major public artworks. She wrote and presented the national documentary series, art + soul, for ABC Television in 2010 and 2014, and until recently was Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Perkins has curated numerous major exhibitions of Indigenous art, and edited significant publications including the landmark One Sun, One Moon: Aboriginal Art in Australia catalogue, accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2007. In 1997, she co-curated (with Brenda L. Croft) the exhibition Fluent, to represent Australia at the 47th Venice Biennale, in partnership with Victoria Lynn, Art Gallery of New South Wales. Also with Croft and Philippe Peltier, she co-curated the Australian Indigenous Art Commission for the MusÊe du quai Branly in Paris in 2006, a partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts. Perkins has additionally undertaken numerous advisory roles for government, and sat on boards and selection committees for major significant commissions, philanthropic trusts, cultural institutions, festivals and biennales, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, the Biennale of Sydney, and for Australia’s representation at the Venice Biennale. 32
ERMA RANIERI australia Erma Ranieri oversees executive development, reform and sustainable workforce management for the South Australian Office for the Public Sector. She was the South Australian winner of the Telstra Community and Government Award and was named 2014 Telstra Business Woman of the Year. The Office for the Public Sector’s principal role is to ensure the South Australian public sector is led and managed in a way that is ethical, fosters excellence in governance, leadership and collaboration and has a performance culture that is efficient, adaptive and flexible to meet the needs of a changing society. The Office is leading a cultural shift in the public sector, toward a more collaborative and innovative connection to the community. Ranieri is currently Public Sector Employment Commissioner and manages projects including Change@ SouthAustralia, a series of 90 day change projects empowering employees to create innovative and dynamic workplaces and foster more productive relationships with the community and business. Ranieri was elected Institute of Public Administration Australia South Australia division President in August 2012 and currently chairs the Industry Advisory Board, Centre for Human Resource Management at UniSA. She has more than 30 years’ experience, has published papers in management journals, and regularly presents at local and national events on organisational culture, values, change and leadership.
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Timo Santala finland Timo Santala is a Finnish journalist, photographer and concept designer, and the founder of quarterly global food festival Restaurant Day, and the We Love Helsinki movement. He has taken a leading role in community activation and promoting food culture in his native Helsinki, and is a specialist in communal event planning, as well as a food, travel and wine writer. Santala believes that food culture has a huge impact on a city’s character and appeal, and sees a dynamic culinary ethos as a key factor in attracting and retaining new citizens. Restaurant Day has the simple premise that anyone can set up a voluntary pop up restaurant, anywhere, for a day, as a way of facilitating shared enjoyment within a community. The concept was initiated in Helsinki around the premise of food for all, and in opposition to the difficulties of government regulation. It has since become a global movement, celebrated in hundreds of cities around the globe. Nominated as the Cultural Act of the Year, 2011 in Helsinki, and the Food Event of the Year, 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Restaurant Day has been taken up by over nearly 60,000 one-day restaurateurs and catered for estimated 1.6 million customers in 64 different countries since 2011.
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Moneyless, Living Walls Conference (2014). Photograph courtesy of artist
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PUBLIC: creativity in action | 10 - 19 April
The PUBLIC symposium is set against the backdrop
The festival draws upon the connectivity and
of a city in the process of transformation as a range
vibrancy of our communities. Local, interstate and
of artists descend on the Perth streets across a radius
international artists will gather in Perth in April 2015
of interconnecting sites that enliven the metropolitan
to transform Perth’s CBD, Fremantle, Leederville,
area. The infectious atmosphere of change and
Victoria Park, the wheat-belt and the Pilbara will play
inspiration energising Perth provides a special and
host to a range of extraordinary artistic talent. Their
unique experience for attendees. The diverse events
presence will transform streets and walls, engaging
that are happening as part of PUBLIC create many
community participation and triggering discussion
options to participate in different activities through
and debate. The festival line-up includes some of
openings, parties, film screenings, and exhibitions
the world’s most beloved street artists, and a diverse
that catalyse new discoveries and ways to connect
range of contemporary practitioners who straddle
with friends, and colleagues.
the art gallery and the public realm.
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LOCATIONS
public at a glance avon valley grain silos NORTHAM
PILBARA
APRIL 10 ART IN THE CITY
PUBLIC OPENING event SHADOW: IAN STRANGE EXHIBITION public salon
art in the wheatbelt
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leederville
perth + NORTHBRIDGE
claremont
fremantle
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PUBLIC CLOSing Party
SYMPOSIUM LABS REcrafted EXHIBITION SHADOW: IAN STRANGE EXHIBITION public salon
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pARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Nespoon (Poland). Image courtesy of artist.
+ Joining thE FOLLOWING list of international talent will be a group of 30+ national and local artists. Please refer to public.form.net.au for the full artist list.
public murals:
pARTICIPATING international ARTISTS Eko Nugroho INDONESIA Eko Nugroho is an internationally acclaimed
the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki,
contemporary artist from Yogjakarta, Indonesia.
Finland (2007), the Busan Biennale, Korea (2008), Sip,
He is one of the most successful members of the
Indonesian Art Today in Singapore and Berlin (2013),
young generation of Indonesian artists who emerged
the California Pacific Biennale, US (2013) and the
during the period of upheaval and reform that
Gwangju Biennale, Korea (2014). He has presented
occurred in the wake of the 1997 Asian financial
solo exhibitions across the world, including his native
crisis, the subsequent fall of the Suharto regime, and
Indonesia, in Australia, China, France, Germany,
Indonesia‘s transition to democracy.
Japan, the Netherlands and the United States, and in
Nugroho‘s practie incorporates drawings and
2013 represented Indonesia at the Venice Biennale.
painting, murals, sculpture, animation, tapestry and self-published zines. These works are grounded in both local traditions and global popular culture. In particular, he has cited the influence of traditional batik and embroidery styles, Javanese wayang kulit shadow puppetry, street art, graffiti and comics. Nugroho has participated in numerous major international exhibitions including Shadows: Contemporary Art from South East Asia at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, (2005), The 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, Australia (2006), the Taipei Biennale in Taiwan (2006), Wind from the East at 44
Eko Nugroho. Photograph courtesy of artist.
Curiot (Favio Martinez), was born and raised in the United States, moving to Mexico a decade ago to reconnect with his family heritage. His wall works draw upon traditional elements from South American culture including Mayan and Aztec folklore and Mexican handcrafts. His work appears in galleries and on walls in countries including Beirut, Germany, Mexico, Tunisia and the United States.
DaLeast CHINA
Elian (Elian Chali) is a street artist based in C贸rdoba, Argentina, who creates vivid abstract compositions in direct response to architectural sites. He has participated in group exhibitions and festivals across Argentina, in France, Peru, Poland, Russia and the United States, and undertaken residency projects in Argentina, Miami and Mexico.
CURIOT MEXICO
Chinese-born DALeast is a prolific street artists and accomplished painter, sculptor, and digital artist, currently based in South Africa. He has participated in exhibitions and projects in China, as well as in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, the United States and numerous countries throughout Europe and Africa. He has held solo exhibitions in Australia, Italy, the UK and the United States.
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Born during his parents’ flight from Cambodia in the wake of the Khmer Rouge genocide, Andrew Hem grew up equally influenced by the rural animistic culture of his Khmer ancestors, and the dynamic urban arts of Los Angeles where his family eventually settled. Fascinated by graffiti at an early age, he honed his art practice on city walls before studying at the Art Center College of Design. He now exhibits and lectures across the world, including solo and group exhibitions in Canada, Italy, Switzerland and cities across the United States.
Hense USA
Born in Milan and raised in Tuscany, Moneyless (Teo Pirisi) graduated from Carrara Fine Arts Academy, and undertook postgraduate studies in Communication Design at Isia, Florence. He forged his art practice as a graffiti writer during the 1990s, but has since evolved beyond the written word. His current practice represents a “Platonic vision” that celebrates geometry as the foundation of the natural world. Moneyless exhibits his works in various galleries, on walls, and in natural and abandoned sites across the world.
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Andrew Hem cambodia
Internationally acclaimed abstract artist HENSE (Alex Brewer) has been combining techniques of graffiti and abstract painting for nearly two decades. HENSE developed a love of art in public spaces as a graffiti artist during the early ‘90s, before undertaking formal education and gaining experience in the design industry. He has since undertaken numerous public art projects and large-scale commissions across the United States and internationally, including his largest work, a 40 x 50 meter mural for the ISIL Institute in Lima, Peru, in 2013.
MONEYLESS ITALY
Welsh-born, London-based artist Phlegm views himself as a self-publishing, underground cartoonist. The artist enjoys the ephemeral nature that painting public walls provides, along with the individual control offered through self-publishing his hand-drawn comics. Since beginning to paint murals on abandoned buildings and objects in Sheffield, UK, Phlegm’s detailed characters, animals and fantastical scenes have appeared throughout Australasia, Europe, the UK and the United States.
SANER MEXICO
AEC (Aleksei Bordusov) and Waone (Vladimir Manzhos), better known as Interesni Kazki (‘Interesting Stories’ in English), are an artist duo from Kiev, Ukraine, known for their surreal and poetic imagery. They began their artistic careers as some of the earliest eastern European street artists, painting walls across the Ukraine and Russia for more than ten years. Today their works appear in India, Mexico and across Europe and the United States.
PHLEGM ENGLAND
Saner (Edgar Flores) is a street artist, illustrator and graphic designer from Mexico City. His exposure to Pop Art and Mexican muralism since childhood has informed his work, which reinterprets iconography inspired by Mexican folklore with a pop sensibility. He has exhibited in galleries in Barcelona, Berlin, London, Mexico City and New York, and his work appears on walls across Australia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain and the United States.
WAONE & AEC INTERESNI KAZKIUKRAINE
exhibitions
Nespoon, Entanglement , “Art & Science” - 17th Islamic Arts Festival, UAE. 2014. photograph courtesy of artist.
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Heliophilic, Nandita Kumar. Image courtesy of artist.
Recrafted: Nandita Kumar (India) & Nespoon (Poland) Opening April 15th, 6 – 8pm 357 Murray Street, PERTH
An immersive installation explores a brave new world of networks and webs where binaries collapse as digital and tactile merge, public and private are flipped inside out and traditional divisions between craft and technology, old and new, past and present are reconsidered.
Nandita Kumar MAURITIUS/INDIA Nandita Kumar is a new-media artist who creates immersive environmental spaces. She explores the process through which human beings construct meaning from their experiences, by creating sensory narratives through the use of sound, video/animation and performance, or through smartphone apps, customized motherboards and solar/microwave sensors. Kumar was born in Pamplemousse, Mauritius and currently lives and works between Bombay and Auckland. She holds a joint Bachelors Degree from MS University, India and Auckland University, New Zealand, and a Masters Degree in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles. Kumar has shown in festivals and at galleries across the world including LACMA, REDCAT, ISEA, Je de Paume, The New Zealand International Film Festival, Film Anthology Archive NY, Indian Art Fair, Rome International Film festival, Stuttgart Animation Festival, The Academy of Television Art and Sciences in Los Angeles, and was included in the ‘Best of Sydney Underground Festival’ DVD. Her work has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Age, Hindustan times, The Indian Express, Take on Art (India), and Australian Art Collector. She has also been a guest speaker at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and for TEDx.
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Nespoon (Poland). Image courtesy of artist.
NESPOON POLAND NeSpoon is a street artist from Warsaw, Poland who uses ornate lace patterns in the creation of ‘public jewellery’. She makes use of stenciling and painting, textile installation and ceramics, often intervening in the urban and natural landscapes in order to draw attention to the beauty of commonly-overlooked sites. She has shown work in galleries and public sites across her native Poland, as well as in Austria, Croatia, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates, and has collaborated with local lace-makers in a number of these countries in the creation of her works.
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SHADOW
IAN STRANGE
In 2015, Ian Strange returns to Perth to create a new body of work as part of PUBLIC. An investigation of the family home as a social and psychological icon over 4 years has taken Ian Strange on a journey of exploring suburban life in across the USA, New Zealand and around Australia. Now, this journey inspired by his upbringing in the suburbs of Perth, brings Ian strange back to Western Australia for his most significant body of work to date and his first major work in his own state.
Ian Strange AUSTRALIA | USA Ian Strange is a New York based, Australian artist whose work investigates the home as a social and psychological construct, as well as broader themes of disenfranchisement within the built environment. His practice includes painting, film, photography, sculpture, installation and site-specific interventions. Over the past six years, Strange’s work has investigated the iconography surrounding the family home and suburbia, and its unique place within current social, economic and cultural environments. His recent exhibition projects included Suburban at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, in 2013; Final Act, incorporating uninhabited, post-earthquake effected houses in Christchurch’s ‘Red Zone,’ at the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand (2013); and Landed, a large-scale sculptural commission for the forecourt of the Art Gallery of South Australia, for the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (2014). Strange and his work has been featured in numerous publications including; OSMOS Magazine, The Atlantic, Art Almanac, Artlink, Art Market, Artist Profile, Art World, The Australian, Dazed and Confused, The Financial Review, Oyster and Vault magazine. His work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, the Canterbury Museum, and the Art Gallery of South Australia.
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Suburban, Ian Strange. Photograph by Corrinne Terrace.
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power of place
exhibition
Aboriginal Artists Living and Working in Desert Australia
Power of Place is an exhibition of Aboriginal artwork to be held adjacent to the State Theatre of Western Australia. The show explores the centrality, and expression of place in the work of Aboriginal artists living and working in desert Australia. In contrast to the idea of the inland regions as the country’s ‘dead heart’, Aboriginal art visualises this landscape as alive with colour, richness and meaning. Across varied artistic expressions, place continues to appear as a web of interaction between environment, people and the cosmos. It is a networked space knitted together by land, religion and a strong sense of community maintained through rules of kinship and relationships. The complexity of place is revealed in melodic patterning and bold gesture, which appear in paintings that fully exploit the sensuality of colour and paint.
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pUBLIC SALON
exhibition
Western Australian Artists
The highly successful PUBLIC Salon exhibition will return in 2015 with a new structure and a new venue. Held in Victoria Park, the exhibition will showcase a curated selection of original artworks by Western Australian artists. Opening late March in the lead up to the PUBLIC festival, the showcase will be officially launched on the 10th of April for PUBLIC’s opening night. The PUBLIC Salon is an integral part of our program for 2015, celebrating Western Australia’s rich artistic talent and giving PUBLIC fans the opportunity to collect works by their favourite artists.
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PUBLIC 2014. Photograph by Luke Shirlaw
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