{"id":1492,"date":"2010-09-27T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2010-09-27T08:54:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T22:54:24","slug":"artists-getting-crafty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=1492","title":{"rendered":"artists getting crafty – and vice versa"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the Fringe Festival down here in (finally) sunny Melbs, so there are a few irregular happenings going down. I’ve had cause, and occasion, over the weekend to peruse the full festival programme<\/a>. I found within a couple of interesting exhibitions, happening in spaces other than galleries, which were enough to get me thinking.<\/p>\n

First up, Home is where the Craft is<\/a> is happening in Cate Lawrence’s<\/a> home. While the exhibition text on the Fringe site is a little all over the place, it does pose an interesting – and possibly somewhat confronting – opportunity to see a home as an alternative exhibition venue. I’m all for opening up my own place as a venue for collaboration or even craft gatherings (and of course it is routinely scattered with the detritus of my own artistic operations), but to have a bunch of strangers into my most private space for an exhibition? I plan on seeing the show this week to see how comfortable – or otherwise – this experience turns out to be.<\/p>\n

Second up is a street based show called Subversion Therapy<\/a> by artist Nick Ilton. He will also be exhibiting at Off The Kerb Gallery<\/a> simultaneously, just in case all the other pieces disappear one must assume? I think the insurance policy is maybe unnecessary, but I guess we’ll soon see what stays and what goes…<\/p>\n

For this show the potential ‘audience’ can sign up to a text message service (I wonder how expensive this will get? Better or worse than printing up invites?) to have the location of each work sms’d to them.<\/p>\n

I think it’s really interesting to interrogate the idea that showing art involves placing it in a gallery. And Melbourne, with its protected graffiti<\/a> and laneway commissions<\/a>, seems a good place to just try putting it out there, to see what happens. What else can I say? I’ve signed up! See you on the streets…<\/p>\n

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…and in news just to hand, via text message this morning I have been told that there is also a blog<\/a>, and today’s location is “lygon st argyle square carlton”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seeking an alternative to gallery shows is easy now that the Fringe is on! Melissa finds two to check out in late September 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dialogue","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}