Over the next weeks, we’ll be introducing our Know Thy Neighbour #3 artists, along with their community partners. 

Know Thy Neighbour #3, presented by Spaced with the UWA School of Design, is a provocation to the familiarity of place, asking communities to step outside of familiar engagements and locations; to seek out scenarios or contexts that defamiliarize and recontextualise "the local" for audiences, communities, or the artists themselves and ask how we can meaningfully engage in the making of our cities.

Here, we introduce Amy Perejuan-Capone who will be working with the City of Melville.

Amy Perejuan-Capone works between Fremantle, the Perth hills, and international residencies. With a background in art and design, Perejuan-Capone’s practice is underpinned by an enquiry into the systems of exchange that are present through the acquisition and application of craft. Across broad mediums including ceramics, textiles and metal works, she seeks to understand objects, materials and the networks of social and cultural agency held within them. In her Know Thy Neighbour #3 residency, Perejuan-Capone will be working with the City of Melville to explore the social, ethical, and practical underpinnings of local government policies relating to dogs. She is interested in how these policies affect dogs and their human families, and in expanding an understanding of dog friendly public space as social sculpture in a more-than-human environment. 

Located south of the Derbal Yerrigan, the City of Melville spans a lengthy 18km of foreshore, integrating a mixture of bushland, wetland, and urban development within its boundaries. The City has more than 200 parks and reserves, 778 hectares of public open space, and 295 hectares of bushland. This year the City of Melville will open its first Fenced Dog Play Park which will be located at Piney Lakes Reserve.

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