If ever there was a city addicted to rules and regulations it’s Melbourne. Just this past month dozens of bike riders have been charged a couple of hundred bucks each for cycling along the wide, virtually deserted, paths of the Carlton gardens. It’s illegal to carry marker pens around the streets for crying out loud. We are hooked on convention - our hunger for conformity is sick I tell you, SICK!
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Thank lord we’ve got some expert artists on hand to help us. Between the 16th and the 18th of this month eleven urban artists (including our very own Rayna Fahey) will come together in one awesome project - equalling a 12-step program to help break Melbourne’s habits of convention.
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Curated by Lynda Roberts of Public Assembly (another Craft Cartel regular participant)’The Interventionist Guide’has its HQ in the subterranean gallery, Platform, at Flinders st Station. From there it spreads out into far-flung and forgotten corners of the city. The cabinets within Platform provide illustrative mapping devices, a ‘users guide’ to creatively intervene within a range of urban spaces selected by each artist to reveal the unique nature of each location and the creative potential it offers. Lynda will also be temporarily overlaying an alternative map on Melbourne’s Information Way finder signage to show the location of the Interventionists and their installations and projects.
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Lynda is inviting the lot of you to get involved by taking the radio powered ‘Transistor Show’ or gentle sensory walk alternative tours with artists Neil Thomas, Anthony Morgan and Iian Abrahams, listening to violinist Cye Wood’s strings reverberate in underground tunnels and walkways, watching as office walls and wire fences are transformed into blank canvases for the works of Projector Obscura and Radical Cross Stitch, being confronted with odd behaviour by the Roarawar Feartata Collective and delighted by tiny microgalleries and playful experiments with mirrors by jeweller Caz Guiney and Light-Jacker Ceri Hann.
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So check out the Public Assembly website & facebook invite for The Interventionist Guide, and rock up to help out with an interactive artistic wake-up call to confront all that is predictable and boring in our city.
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YEAAAAH!