THE WILD

As part of Project 50, Project Arts Centre presents

THE WILD

Launching with a trickle that may become a torrent, The Wild is a celebration of networks and communities, friends and co-conspirators, memories and visions.

Project Arts Centre was founded 50 years ago by artists and it is artists and creatives who today remain at the core of our organisation.

The Wild adopts a horizontal, vine-like approach to exhibition-making, where the contents and accumulations of artworks and experiences will evolve throughout the months of November and December as an active memorial to the festival in which Project was formed in 1966, then remain on display until the end of January 2017.

The exhibition will be built around and from Project’s members and the networked community of artists who are the backbone of our programme.

As an artistic disruption, it proposes to embark on something unknown, reactionary, potentially incorrect, and chaotically idiosyncratic.

Members will be seeking out artworks from studios, archives and memories, rebelling against the planned, choreographed or overly predetermined.

It will also be a space for an idiosyncratic reflection on history, and potentially Project’s history, with members being encouraged to bring back or unearth artworks that they hold dearly in their memories.

In its title, The Wild alludes to potential chaos, an inherent spirit of adventure, and also the new sociological thinking of the Anthropocene: there is no longer a separated ‘wild’, out there, beyond us, there’s only the great ‘within’ of the earth system.

Curator: Tessa Giblin