VANTAGE POINT Exhibition The Substation

CURATOR’S FOREWORD This exhibition explores the conceptual vantage point of the building in relation to the city. It presents an opportunity to dwell in and on a landscape imbued with innumerable ecologies. The building and the city are probed in unison.

In this exhibition the landscape is mapped through an aggregate of singular vantage points and processes.

You will not find one complete view, and so must continue to navigate the terrain. The newly-produced works by six artists and artist collaborators cover a macro-to-micro scale investigation into space and are clearly concerned with enquiring within, overtly researching, understanding through discourse and redefining through intervention. The works are propositions, site-specific interventions, manifestos, videos and installations.

In the lead-up to the federal election, several of the works overtly address the climate of social and ecological justice in Australia. The works are closely bound to the politics of land and land use. They dismantle and bring into the gallery issues and policies concerning power relations, workforces, geological resources and migration.

Will Foster