HOW CAN THE HIERARCHICAL ARRANGEMENTS OF EVERYDAY MATERIALS OFFER NEW READINGS OF OUR SURROUNDINGS?

PROJECT: EVERYDAY ACTIONS
ARTIST: GRACE DEWAR
PROJECT PARTNERS: READY CREEK WASTE AND RECYCLE CENTRE, ENDEAVOUR FOUNDATION & LEVEL UP STUDIOS

Everyday Actions is a series of temporary, site-specific spatial and curatorial investigations. The work, informed by the reclamation of waste and recycled materials, will be presented via installation, assemblage, and video at various locations across the Gold Coast. Through research, interaction and intervention of the waste industry, Everyday Actions will consider the hierarchical arrangement of everyday materials and objects to offer new associations and readings of our surroundings. These sculptural responses will experiment with intuitive acts of selection and assemblage, and the reorganisation and construction of objects into large- and small-scale installations. Guided by resource recovery processes and exploratory practices, the artist will experiment with quasi-functional, mass-produced objects such as air-conditioning units, building materials and industrial textiles (tarpaulins, billboard skins, shade cloth) for their aesthetic and transformative qualities.