wunder gym x Wyndham City x melbourne Design week & Melbourne Art Book Fair
NO SHIT
Fatima Measham & Dr Cameron Bishop Project
WUNDER GYM X Wyndham city PROGRAM
‘NO SHIT’ PROGRAM AND PUBLICATION
The ‘No Shit!’ Wunder Gym program comprises of three main elements: a mentored creative response to a provocation; responses showcased in a publication; and launch of the publication.
Annette Wagner’s Wunder Gym has partnered with Wyndham City to present ‘No Shit!’, a creative development program nurturing twenty, early career, creatives. Program participants will be responding to writer Fatima Measham’s essay ‘No Shit’ and mentored by artist, writer and Deakin University’s Public Art Commission ‘Treatment’ co-curator Cameron Bishop.
The ‘No Shit’ Wunder Gym program, publication and launch event aims to nurture creativity by maintaining the transformative benefits that comes when an inclusive and diverse community works collectively, rather than individually. Aligning with the ‘Civic Good’ NGV Design Week theme, the ‘No Shit!’ program represents the ethos of the Wunder Gym, fostering an experience to engage creativity by building better futures through positive and supportive arts and creative communities.
The program commenced Monday 29thNovember 2021 and built to completion during NGV Design Week on Friday 18thMarch, and the Melbourne Art Book Fair, on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20thMarch 2022.
The creatives were mentored via participant only events throughout the program, resulting in the No Shit publication.
The publication, ‘No Shit’, will be launched locally in Werribee at a public panel event, featuring Measham and Bishop, hosted by Wagner at Wyndham City Arts & Culture.
FATIMA MEASHAM - ESSAY ‘NO SHIT’ & PROJECT PROMPT
Fatima Measham is a writer and speaker living west of the Werribee River (Wirribi Yaluk) on Wadawurrung Country. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, The Guardian, The Big Issue, SBSVoices, Right Now and America, among other places. Wunder Gym and Wyndham has confirmed commissioning Fatima’s essay to act as provocation to the Wunder Gym participants and for inclusion in the ‘No Shit!’ publication.
CAMERON BISHOP – PROJECT MENTOR
Cameron Bishop is a Melbourne based artist, writer and curator. His work with the Public Art Commission collaborator David Cross at Deakin University, established "Treatment: Flightlines" (2017), a public art project involving 10 artists, 10 buses and a 10,000 hectare sewage treatment facility - Melbourne Water's Western Treatment Plant. Over two days in late April 2017 thousands of people participated in this unique event that uses contemporary art to uncover the unique cultures, textures, aromas and technologies of this 130 year old facility. ‘Treatment’, curated by the Public Art Commission is set to return in 2023.
EXHIBITING WUNDER GYM MEMBERS: Catherine Mackay, Simpson Myers, Paul Zahra, Christine Bulandus, Stella Kinsella, Andrew Cullimore, Steven Patridge, Carol Rowlands, Nandita Nadkarni, Carlos Almenar Diaz and Connor Ovenden-Shaw.
Curated by: Annette Wagner.
