Curatorial Tour: Experimenta Make Sense
When: Saturday 13th February 2021 11AM—12PM
Where: Bennett Gallery
Price: This is a FREE event
Bookings: Numbers are strictly limited. To secure your place, phone or email the gallery on 03 5760 2619 or gallery@benalla.vic.gov.au
According to Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson a challenge for 21st century humanity is that “we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and god-like technologies.” Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art, exhibits a program of over 20 leading international and Australian artists who engage directly with this conundrum.
Join us for a unique guided tour of this playful and challenging exhibition presented at Benalla Art Gallery and immerse your senses into a ‘thinking’, ‘feeling’ and ‘doing’ contemplation of what it is to be human in the digital age of technological acceleration. The tour will conclude with a virtual Q&A with the exhibition’s co-curator, Jonathan Parsons.
Experimenta is the future of art, presenting work that is poised on the intersect between art, science and technology. Since its inception in 1986, Experimenta has developed a worldwide reputation for fostering creativity that extends the aesthetic, conceptual and experiential potential of art forms. Experimenta presents art that can not be experienced elsewhere, imagining the future of art and exploring unchartered pathways towards it.
HOW TO EXPERIENCE
To book, phone or email the gallery on 03 5760 2619 or gallery@benalla.vic.gov.au. All visitors must check-in via QR codes and are required to observe hygiene and physical distancing practices. Benalla Art Gallery will ensure that capacity requirements are observed in a Gallery space at all times. For further inquiries for visiting the gallery, please contact gallery reception (03) 5760 2619.
CURATOR BIO
Jonathan Parsons has over twenty years of experience working in arts and culture in Australia and internationally. Concurrent with his role at Experimenta he is the Creative Director of Robotronica a biennial festival showcasing developments in robotics and interactive design held at QUT in Brisbane. He was the Director of ISEA2013 (International Symposium on Electronic Art) an international festival of art, technology and ideas in partnership with Vivid Sydney.
Parsons has extensive arts administration and management experience working for a range of festivals, cultural institutions and performing arts companies. He has artistically led and collaborated on a broad range of cultural programs and events across all art forms including for: the State Library of Queensland, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Riverfestival, Byron Bay Writers Festival, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival, Pacific Wave Festival, Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Awesome Festival and the London International Festival of Theatre.
Find out more about the exhibition Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art, showing at Benalla Art Gallery 12 December 2020 – 14 February 2021: www.experimenta.org/exhibition/make-sense
