Signals (for AT HOME project), 2023
Site-specific light installation
Wydnham, Australia
Signals, 2023
Site-specific light installation
SIGNALS was a site-specific, collaborative public light installation and text-based work commissioned for AT HOME, a site-based curatorial project exploring the concept of “home” and the built environment within real homes.
The work served as an exterior beacon for the project, while the interior was transformed through a week of programming: talks, exhibitions, and installations featuring more than 20 artists, academics, and performers investigating the home and its history. SIGNALS featured rotating texts drawn from the community, local artists, and academics, including Kait James, Rachel Morley, Dr Monika Schott, and WUW, exploring the social, cultural, and political contexts of the home and its site.
Sculpture
Signals (for AT HOME project), 2023
Site-specific light installation.
Wydnham, Australia
Signals (for AT HOME project), 2023
Site-specific light installation.
Wydnham, Australia
Signals (for AT HOME project), 2023
Site-specific light installation.
Wydnham, Australia
Signals (for AT HOME project), 2023
Site-specific light installation.
Wydnham, Australia
Signals (for AT HOME project), 2023
Site-specific light installation.
Wydnham, Australia
Credits
SIGNALS was installed in December, 2023 with support from Wyndham City, Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, and the Alastair Swayn Foundation. The work was produced by Matt Roberts and Jedda Andrews, in collaboration with Scoundrel Projects. The full AT HOME Wyndham project program, artist list, and archive is available on the dedicated project website.
[FULL CREDITS]
The AT HOME project was curated by a multidisciplinary collective founded in 2022 by Ian Strange, Jedda Andrews, Simon Robinson and Steve Mintern (OFFICE), Dr. Rory Hyde (Melbourne School of Design), Mashaka Gunnulson, Dr. Mathan Ratinam, Emma Pegrum, and Miriam McGarry (Hidden Cities).
SIGNALS:
Artist: Ian Strange
Artists/Commissioned texts: Kait James, Rachel Morley, Dr Monika Schott, Western Union Writers Assoc.
Producer: Matt Roberts (Scoundrel Projects)
Producer/Creative Producer: Jedda Andrews
Art Direction: Ian Kanik
Design and Planning: Grotto Studio (Craig Nener)
Site 3D pre-vis: Jamie Sher
Programming and Installation: Reelize Studio (Jobe Williams)
Curated by Common Collective: Dr. Rory Hyde (University of Melbourne), Steve Mintern and Simon Robinson (OFFICE), Jedda Andrews, Ian Strange, Dr. Mathan Ratinam, Emma Pegrum, and Miriam McGarry (Hidden Cities)
Commissioning Grantors and Project Partners (AT HOME): Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts and Crafts Strategy (VACS) Major Commission; Wyndham City, New Works Commission; Alastair Swayn Foundation, Design Strategy Grant; Creative Victoria, Creative Projects Fund.
The artists, project producers, and Common Collective recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as sovereign First Peoples. We acknowledge the Bunurong and Wadawurrung Peoples as the Traditional Owners of the lands on which AT HOME Wyndham and SIGNALS took place, and further acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung People on whose lands this project was developed. We pay our respect to their Ancestors, and to Elders past, present and future.