May | 2018 | SACRED PLACE

Fragments In Time

What is it about a particular space that can foster such a strong sense of community? My exploration looks at understanding how identity is created through cultural aspects of a community, and in turn, to what degree culture of community is informed by the space is exists in. Using four lenses on an 80’s film…

Passages

The Tote is a venue that, for many years, has cultivated the connection between artist and audience, creating the conditions for passionate musical experimentation and cultural growth. Passages is an exploration into the intersection that occurs here, with a focus on the totality of the shared experience. In this piece, a central focus is given…

Underground

For assignment 4, we focused our investigation on the sonic possibilities and aspects of our site. We found the most common sonic occurrence was the echo, and we wanted to express that in our audit of the site. We played several different styles of music and ambient sounds through a huge PA speaker. We pointed…

The Connection

The Gaol was definitely a serious and august place to the order in the past Victoria and contributed to the criminal history and prison practices in the late 19th and early 20th century. Like Welch said ‘the prison serves as a vehicle for cultural transmission as it projects a particular – local – narrative about…

The Centre

What are the elements that define a space? In our exploration and examination of the shopping center, we identified movement as the central quality that defined the space. Through further discussion and deconstruction of this quality, we identified that the shopping center could be divided into two distinct identities: one identity regarding passive movement and…

Online Escape

The online world can also work as a private space, creating opportunity for more introverted individuals to express themselves with a higher level of confidence and self-esteem as their identity is able to be anonymised. Through light being purely ejected from the laptop screen in amongst the extremely dark surroundings, we are aiming to visually…

Memorial

For our final piece we decided to explore further the idea of memorial and commemoration. We came to this idea through the prompt that a place means nothing without emotion. Thus we considered that a place of memorial or a place that is dedicated to a person’s existence must be charged with emotion. For a…

Melbourne’s Hidden Treasures

Sometimes, the unexpected is usually what brings the unbelievable. The Campbell Arcade – running underground between the Degraves Street and the western entrance of Flinders Street Station is one of Melbourne’s hidden treasures with the interesting public and aesthetically as a substantial example of late Art Deco design in a distinctive 1950s colour scheme. The…

Buskers of Bourke

Buskers of Bourke is an exploration into the buskers who perform on Bourke Street, specifically in the mall, and how they came to perform there. We wanted to explore the different performers, as well as their place in the wider busking community, and discover how they thought of music . We worked in collaboration with…

Appropriated Comfort

Appropriated Comfort is an intimate spatial investigation of Ikea and the ‘Ikea Effect’. After exploring the maze like tendencies that dictate the Ikea experience in our previous project, we decided to examine the Ikea effect in relation to the religious experience. Starting with a picture of the Ikea catalogue resembling a bible, our exploration of…

Melodies and Rituals

Sometimes we don’t realise the elements in which create our reality. Melodies and Rituals divulges deeper into the complexity within seemingly simplistic bells and the intensity within the sonic worlds and how its power influences and co-exists within such a public yet hidden land. Birrarung Marr was an intense site with so many discoveries to explore,…

Never Say Die

Never Say Die is an exploration of The Tote and the community to whom it is sacred. The Tote is arguably Melbourne’s most iconic music venue. It is place people have fought to save. For many people, The Tote is closely connected to their ideas of community and identity: it is a home. And like…

The Hidden Gem

“A Hidden Gem,” said Kate. We asked Kate, a shop owner to describe what The Block Arcade is in three words. It is a building filled with a special meaning and presence in the middle of the busy, modern life in the city. The Block Arcade is a beautiful Melbourne’s heritage that is located in…

Behind Closed Doors

Our project’s focus is upon King Street. In our first assignment on this site we came across issues with access. In Western Society, doors are often represented as an opportunity. But what happens when those doors are locked? Our project explores the barriers that doors create, focusing in on King Street’s shady underbelly. Can…