Early last year Nexus Designs approached the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, ACCA, with a proposition to create an exhibition founded on the principle of collaboration. ACCA’s annual NEW exhibition series offers selected artists the means and support to create a new work and have it shown in their exhibition galleries. This year, with Nexus Designs as the Collaborating Design Partner, NEW has been reinvigorated.
Nexus Designs have turned ACCA’s galleries into seven individual sites, each with their own new intervention. Elements of the internal architecture have been peeled back, other parts squeezed, some lowered and others raised in a way that makes the galleries new and unexpected. The seven selected artists, in collaboration with Nexus Designs, ACCA and a variety of industry specialists, have responded to the spaces to produce an ambitious and exciting series of art installations.
This special 2010 edition of NEW recognises the fruitful exchange of ideas and skills that are often assembled in the design process, but which sometimes remain unacknowledged. So what does happen when artists, designers, curators, manufacturers, a horticulturalist, a physicist, and an eco-friendly builder collaborate? Come and find out.
Exhibition Opening on Wednesday 17 March,
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art,
A model of the gallery reveals an interesting 'spatial narrative' used to design the exhibition.
Construction in progress at NEW010.
