The project exposes the impact of perspective on belief and the potency of imagination.
Reality is slippery and imagination a fearsome thing.
Part installation, part museum, part story exchange, THE GHOST PROJECT embarks on a discussion between audience, communities and artists to unearth ghosts, spirits and hauntings. Although most often presented as an amalgam the project has three distinct methodologies reflected in individual modules.
the ghost project: An Incomplete History operates as both archive and active collection site. It is a shifting series of creative lectures, displays and story exchanges that sit alongside or mingle with the installations. Over the project's decade of history it has collected suite of artefacts, tales and images. Riffing on museum displays but upending their traditional logic and assumed veracity, the engagement deepens the audiences immersion. Unlike traditional museums that claim objective truth, this project allows fiction to sit side by side with fact. Throughout the work, to the cynical modern eye, the mechanisms of construction are largely exposed yet create an atmosphere of speculation—drawing another blurry line between documentation and fiction.
Works from the series have been presented at:-
An Incomplete History #1
Arts Center Melbourne, AsiaTOPA Lab
2014
An Incomplete History #3
BigCi Artists Space, Bilpin, NSW
2014
An Incomplete History #4
Carriageworks
The Australian Performing Arts Conference.
2015
An Incomplete History #6
Prague Quadrennial of Space and Design, Czech Republic.
2015
An Incomplete History #7
The Substation, Newport, VIC.
2016
An Incomplete History #8
AsiaTOPA, Melbourne
2017
An incomplete History #9
Shoalhaven Regional Gallery
2018
This project has been supported the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body; the NSW Government through Create NSW. Its development was supported by AsiaLink, BigCi and Playking.
