We’re preparing our first collective work/exhibition.

Oblique Heuristics is a collective work created for SUPERCUT, a project by Outer Space*.

While we’re still putting the finishing touches, you can read about our concept:

‘Oblique Heuristics’ is a new work which interrogates place and culture. As Australians and migrants, we draw on our unique perspective of culture and identity to question the rules that define what is ‘Australian’ and our place within it.

We are proposing to exhibit within the Window Gallery, utilising the space to subvert day to day routines and context in which people transit the surrounding public landscape. Our artwork consists of a single A2 sized LCD screen in portrait orientation, displaying prompts (questions, affirmations, conversation) collaboratively written and curated, informed by our lived experiences. These prompts will be the catalyst for passersby to question not only their role in society (as individuals) but their place in it as well (their relationship to others).

Our intention is to investigate the culture we are a part of, consume and propagate, and ultimately trigger incremental change. These prompts will be carefully curated and considered, we’re not seeking to ostracize, but rather to invite people into the conversation.

Photographic cues of the surrounding public landscape (people, environment, food, nature) would be integrated into the work, as visual reflections and explorations of the diversity and rich / complex culture that exists. These photographs can work to inform, subvert, contrast or illustrate our explorations of the current cultural climate.

Through this work, we hope to connect with passersby (locals, workers and visitors to the area) and prompt discussions of what it is to be a part of this culture, why and where they see themselves in it - this is meant to not only enrich our exploration but to reduce bias as well.

*Outer Space is an experimental and cross-disciplinary arts organisation based in Meanjin/Brisbane.