Know Thy Neighbour #2
Dates: 2018-19
Moving beyond inner-city Perth, Know Thy Neighbour #2 invited nine West Australian artists to develop and present projects in response to their own neighbourhoods including metropolitan sites in the north, south and east.
Know Thy Neighbour #2 explored the form, function and community of Perth’s diverse residential sprawl. Responding to their own locales in new and unexpected ways, the participating artists presented a series of public interventions, actions and events across 2018 and into 2019, engaging, testing and challenging our public spaces, streetscapes and infrastructure.
Case study: Ian Wilkes and Poppy van Oorde-Grainger, Galup (2018-19)
Writers: Ian Wilkes and Poppy van Oorde-Grainger with an oral history from Doolann-Leisha Eatts
Cultural Consultants: Doolann-Leisha Eatts and Ted Wilkes
Performers: Ian Wilkes and Doolann-Leisha Eatts
Director/Producer: Poppy van Oorde-Grainger
Assistant Stage Manager: Samuel Yombich Pilot-Kickett
Location: Wembley, Western Australia
Galup is a walking performance exploring the history and untold stories of Lake Monger in the early 1800s. Created by Ian Wilkes and Poppy van Oorde-Grainger in consultation with Doolann Leisha Eatts and Ted Wilkes, Galup invited audiences on a journey around the lake to hear, watch and participate in historic re-enactments.
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Image by Dan Grant.
Case study: Chris Williams & Green Brigade, Field of the Unwanted (2018-19)
Partner: DADAA
Community partner: St Patrick’s Community Support Centre
Location: Fremantle, Western Australia
Transforming a razed demolition site in central Fremantle, Field of the Unwanted was an unconventional garden, calling attention to the unwelcome and undesirable.
Presented by Spaced and DADAA in collaboration with St Patrick’s Community Support Centre, Field of the Unwanted uses weeds or “plants that grow where they are not wanted” to question the hierarchies of value and displacement experienced by members of our own communities.
Field of the Unwanted elevated the status of weeds in the formation of an ordered garden that created a home for the unwanted. A weed rescue and resettlement service led by the project artists, collected weeds from Fremantle, surrounding suburbs and private residences, relocating them to a cultivated vacant lot on Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle. Acting as custodians of the various weed plots, the artists and the surrounding community worked to tend, grow and create an emerging installation, caring for the weeds till the end of their lifespan.
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Explore other Spaced programs:
Rural Utopias (2019-23). Rural Utopias is a program of residencies, exhibitions and professional development activities organised in partnership with the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) and 12 Western Australian rural and remote towns.
Know Thy Neighbour #1 (2015-17). Know Thy Neighbour #1 was a pilot series of Perth-based temporary context responsive art projects.