Previous Wunder Gym x Melbourne Fringe Festival programs include:
JUN - DEC 2022
‘FORWARD MOTION’ PROGRAM & EXHIBITION FOR WUNDER GYM X MELBOURNE FRINGE FESTIVAL
SCIENCE GALLERY, MELBOURNE + MELBOURNE FRINGE FESTIVAL
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH WYNDHAM CITY COUNCIL X HOBSON’S BAY
The Wunder Gym x Wyndham City Council X Hobson’s Bay program was delivered to 22 Western Region artists who applied to participate with their local council. Wunder Gym delivered this program featuring SCIENCE GALLERY’s TILLY BOLEYN, HEAD OF CURATORIAL and ARIE GLORIE, CURATORIAL ASSISTANT as mentors, establishing the FORWARD MOTION EXHIBITION, inspired by the concurrently running exhibition at Science Gallery Melbourne, SWARM.
Exploring the human superorganism, collective movements, bio-communities as Science Gallery Melbourne delves into the science and art behind what it means to be part of a pack. SWARM reflects on the pros and cons of collective behaviour, looking at the human superorganism, collective social movements and behaviours, and biocommunities. Students will dive into an exhibition that investigates how, and why, we are replicating swarming behaviours, through a scientific, artistic and creative lens.
As part of this program, on Saturday 20th August, we conducted a field trip to Science Gallery, Melbourne to experience the SWARM exhibition. We followed the field trip with a private participant Q&A panel with our mentors, Tilly and Arie. Then each attending participant had a 1on1 speed coaching session with our mentors.
The process of practising articulately pitching a creative responses in 1on1 formats builds ongoing skills consistently required by artists when they need to submit EOI’s to various grant and exhibiting opportunities. Articulating ideas clearly is a practice that is often overlooked as a critical skill. Having an idea is really only 5% of actualising that idea. Communicating and implementing that ideas often consume the other 95% of developing and delivering successful ideas.
The participating artists all generated artworks that were curated by Annette Wagner and exhibited in multiple site locations across Wyndham and Hobsons Bay. These included the Wyndham Cultural Centre Ground Floor Gallery and through Hobsons Bay Wood Street Arts Space billboards, projection window and Altona Civic Centre.
MENTORS: TILLY BOLEYN, HEAD OF CURATORIAL & ARIE GLORIE, CURATORIAL ASSISTANT
FORWARD MOTION EXHIBITION (INSPIRED BY THE SGM SWARM EXHIBITION)
Explore the human superorganism, collective movements, bio-communities as Science Gallery Melbourne delves into the science and art behind what it means to be part of a pack. SWARM reflects on the pros and cons of collective behaviour, looking at the human superorganism, collective social movements and behaviours, and biocommunities. Students will dive into an exhibition that investigates how, and why, we are replicating swarming behaviours, through a scientific, artistic and creative lens.
As part of this program, on Saturday 20th August, we conducted a field trip to Science Gallery, Melbourne to experience the SWARM exhibition. We followed the field trip with a private participant Q&A panel with our mentors, Tilly and Arie. Then each attending participant had a 1on1 speed coaching session with our mentors.
The process of practising articulately pitching a creative responses in 1on1 formats builds ongoing skills consistently required by artists when they need to submit EOI’s to various grant and exhibiting opportunities. Articulating ideas clearly is a practice that is often overlooked as a critical skill. Having an idea is really only 5% of actualising that idea. Communicating and implementing that ideas often consume the other 95% of developing and delivering successful ideas.
The participating artists all generated artworks that were curated and exhibited at the Wyndham Cultural Centre Ground Floor Gallery.
Listen to this program’s Science Gallery, Melbourne’s Mentors: TILLY BOLEYN, HEAD OF CURATORIAL & ARIE GLORIE, CURATORIAL ASSISTANT, Q&A Panel Event hosted by Wunder Gym Founder, Annette Wagner.
