University of Tasmania, Australia

The Plimsoll Inquiry

(includes the Wednesday Night Fiasco each Wednesday 6-9pm in the Hunter St area)

The Plimsoll Inquiry (PI) is a new initiative connecting the Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian College of the Arts, Hunter St, with contemporary artists, its port environment and its community, towards developing innovative and experimental public interactions. With the expansion of contemporary arts practice, artists are creating new opportunities for exchange with diverse audiences, seeking participation as an integral component of the artwork. From socially engaged works to digital art, artists are increasingly looking to people and the spaces around them as partners in an ongoing creative collaboration. The Plimsoll Inquiry initiative aims to foster these types of exchanges, situating the Plimsoll Gallery as a hub for generating wide-ranging public activation; bringing art out into the street in collaboration with others, opening up opportunities for all players involved.

The Plimsoll Gallery will be open to the public from 12 – 5pm week days, with additional programmed events announced throughout the seven weeks. On Wednesday nights from 13 September - 3 November 2013, The Plimsoll Inquiry will host Wednesday Night Fiasco, an event that spills out from the Centre for the Arts onto the Hunter St dock, creating a zone of organised events mingled with the regular activities of the area. Wednesday Night Fiasco aims to generate a micro festival atmosphere, with music and food vans, to encourage diverse participation from artists and performers in combination with engagement from the businesses and community of the local port area.

We would like to invite all members of our community to be part of The Plimsoll Inquiry

Curatorium:

Lucy Bleach // Prof Ross Gibson // Emeritus Prof Jonathan Holmes // Dr Maria Kunda // Fiona Lee // Prof Nikos Papastergiadis // Dr Mary Scott // John Vella // Paul Zika //

Artists, writers and participants include:

Lucy Bleach // Dr Eliza Burke // Steven Carson // Scot Cotterell // Prof Ross Gibson // Tom Hall // Andrew Harper // Dr Lucy Hawthorne // Melanie Herbert //Laura Hindmarsh // Hobart Improv Collective // Leigh Hobba //Emeritus Prof Jonathan Holmes // Neil Holstrom // Prof Wayne Hudson //Dr Meg Keating // Ben Kluss // Dr Maria Kunda // Fiona Lee // Prof Jeff Malpas //Rae Marr // Ros Meeker // Milan Milojevic // Dr Anne Mestitz // Wendy Morrow //Nuclei // Dr Brigita Ozolins // Prof Nikos Papastergiadis // Sally Rees //Mikaela Revell // Jack Robbins // Cath Robinson // Dr Raef Sawford //Christine Scott // Dr Mary Scott // Dr Lucia Usmiani // John Vella // Dr Martin Walch // Meg Walch // Tricky Walsh // Dr Matt Warren // Dr Yvette Watt // Julien Williams // Paul Zika //

• P.I.Media_Release
• P.I.Fact_Sheet