Our Creative Program

Spirit of the Square
1 – 25 December
This December head down to the Square for songs from the Salvos and community choirs, festive films and the playful festivities of In The Pines – an installation of 150 Christmas trees. Brought to you by local urban artists, The Projects, In The Pines sees the humble plastic tree that is found in so many lounge rooms in December (and often well into January) erupting from suburbia into a moveable forest, magically shifting and opening up to unexpected delights and participatory experiences.

Tape Melbourne
Like a giant spider weaving a web or a silk worm at work, the tendons of this two-metre high structure made entirely of packing tape extends over the Western Terrace at Fed Square. Created by revolutionary Viennese/Croatian design mavens Numen/For Use, this is their first work to be shown in the Southern Hemisphere.

MÖBIUS
Having exhibited around the world in far flung places from London’s Institute of Contemporary Art to the streets of Mumbai, internationally celebrated Melbourne art and design group, ENESS were commissioned by Fed Square to create the free public art installation time-lapse ‘animation’, MÖBIUS.

MÖBIUS from ENESS on Vimeo.

Gulpa Island Birds
For 2 weeks in August 2011 at sunrise and sunset, the sounds and sites of the Gulpa Island Birds featured on the Big Screen and The Atrium Screen. Developed by Public Artist Michael O’Dwyer. For more information about the artist and the project, please visit michaelodwyer.com.au

Square by Square
New video work by Korean artist in residence Yongseok Oh, who is currently undertaking a three month Asialink residency as part of an ongoing reciprocal exchange between Changdong Art Studio (Korea) and Artspace (Sydney). Yongseok Oh stitches together film excerpts and stills to reconstruct reality – confuse the past and present by amalgamating real and imagined places. By combining personal and found imagery, he examines the boundary where individual and collective memories collide.

OPENING
From the creative mind that designed the undulating patterns and textual etchings on Fed Square’s cobblestone surface, comes a new audio-visual work exploring the creative region of the Mallee.

HELLO 안녕하세요

HELLO is an Australia-Korea live public dance and screen event created by Australian choreographer Rebecca Hilton in collaboration with choreographer Soonho Park and the Art Center Nabi in Seoul.