Visual Arts Day 2017 Visual Arts Day | Page 3

SELF-GUIDED TOUR
Immerse yourself, interact and enjoy four
exhibitions and two in-gallery talks by taking this
self-guided tour from north to south of the city.
SUN 22 OCTOBER // 12—5.30PM
FREE—no bookings required
View the interactive map at
www.festival.melbourne/visartsday
12PM
3—4PM
EXPERIMENTA MAKE SENSE
CATCH YOUR BREATH KADER ATTIA
GUIDED TOUR WITH RAAFAT ISHAK
► ► Various CBD locations ► ► Australian Centre for
Contemporary Art (ACCA)
111 Sturt Street, Southbank
Opening hours: 11AM—5PM
Immerse your senses into a thinking, feeling and
doing contemplation of what it is to be human
in the digital age of technological acceleration.
Explore the playful and challenging artworks
presented around Melbourne as part of
Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial
of Media Art.
For the full list of public programs, visit
www.experimenta.org/makesense/events
1—2PM
JOSEPH KOSUTH: A SHORT
HISTORY OF MY THOUGHT
GALLERY TALK
► ► Anna Schwartz Gallery
185 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Opening hours: 1—5PM
Join us at Anna Schwartz Gallery for an in-
gallery talk on the work of Joseph Kosuth, who
employs the use of language within site-specific
installations to interrogate how meaning is
constructed, whilst opening up new channels
through which to explore the relationship
between ideas and their physical expression.
► ► Enjoy a late lunch in the CBD
► ► Tram: Route 1 from Stop 11—City Square
to Stop 18—Grant/Sturt Street.
Walk 1 min to ACCA
Join artist Raafat Ishak for special insights on
the exhibition of French-Algerian artist Kader
Attia whose work explores ideas of cultural
exchange, appropriation, and the tangled
relationship between extra-Occidental cultures
and the West in the wake of decolonisation.
► ► Walk: 30 minutes to Mueller Hall
5PM
POROSITY VALLEY, PORTABLE HOLES
EXHIBITION
► ► Royal Botanical Gardens
Mueller Hall Herbarium
Opening hours: 10AM—7PM
Immerse yourself in this site-specific video
installation by Ayoung Kim, which has been
specially commissioned by Melbourne Festival.
Inspired by notions of porosity, the migration of
bodies and the flow of information, this artwork
combines real and virtual worlds to explore the
invisible forces and subterranean geologies that
lay beneath our feet.
► ► Finish the day by visiting one of our
many Festival Feasts restaurant partners.
Visit www.festival.melbourne/feasts
COVER: Kader Attia, Untitled 2016. Installation view, Kader Attia, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2017.
Neon, ancient wooden sculpture from the Sakalava ethnic group, wooden plinth. Mordant Family Collection.
Image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist. Photograph: Anna Kučera