From Space to Place

31 March - 8 May 2005
Central space

curated by Marco Marcon Sixteen of Australia's most exciting, early-career contemporary artists have created new work in the Western Australian rural communities of Kellerberrin and Ballidu for IASKA's new national touring project. From Space to Place features photography, installation, video, sculpture and performance created from the artist's direct engagement with the spaces and places they inhabited in rural WA. From Space to Place concentrates on the ambiguities, paradoxes and contradictions that emerge in the zone of continual exchange between space and place, determined and undetermined, actual and virtual, form and formlessness. The explorations of rural experience in this exhibition focus on the linguistic, aesthetic and emotional relationships between people and places/spaces, through the artists process of becoming displaced and re-situating themselves. This process also implicitly addresses the effects produced by globalisation and new communication technologies on the way in which we feel, understand and experience the space/place nexus.