An exhibition of things not quite architecture

OFF COURSE is an exhibition created by a group of architecture students and graduates. The intention is anti-institutional. Free of the ‘firm’ or the ‘school’. From first years to the “almost-licensed”, the group works against the rigid hierarchy and rules of the academic and professional landscape.

Using the tools and insights gained through formal architectural practice to investigate much more informal encounters of space and ways of being. Exploring the way we both individually and collectively interact with the world.

The exhibition is a curated look into things made, thought, discovered, constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed. A dialogue between the audience and artists, that engages with mediums, subjects and methods that are not often given space within the architecture profession. The work is subjective, relating to personal experience, and none of it quite architecture.

Artists:

Ben Toralba Tan
Harshit Sampat
Kieran Merriman
Kristofer Peralta
Luke Martelli
Prani Patton
Rania Sidanta

Dates: 7–10 July 2023
Hours: Friday to Sunday 10am–2pm, Monday 10am–1pm

A pop-up dining event by Gruel

Fast Casual is an invitation to play with your food. Put your palette to the test with a menu of walking tacos, mcsalad shakers, and muddy buddies.

Drizzle, season, and shake your own custom creations featuring Mat’s hot shop’s signature sauce range with drinks available by donation.

Gruel is a Melbourne/Naarm-based experimental supper club. Gruel’s goal isn’t to be an alternative to conventional dining, but something that exists outside it and evolves with it. Rather than eschew the mundane, grotesque, or confronting sides of food, Gruel embraces it. For the sake of the earth and the animals, Gruel prioritises food that is vegetarian and often vegan.

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Date: Friday 31 March, 6–9pm

Join us for the Melbourne book launch of Mystery Friend a dual-sided comic/art book from Haein Kim and Paul Rhodes.

Published in 2022 by Glom Press, the book features comics, stickers and full-page prints from collaborating Sydney artists Haein Kim and Paul Rhodes.

Mystery Friend is printed by risograph in 2, 4, and 5 colour combinations using red, yellow, fluoro pink, mint, and black on velvety pink 135 gsm colour plan paper. The publication is 66 pages and is available as a limited edition of 250 copies.

Pre-order a copy or purchase from Missing Persons on Friday, 8 July from 5–8pm.

At the launch, there will be original art on display and additional risograph prints from the book for sale.

Date: Friday, 8 July, 5:00–8:00pm. Attend on Facebook

SOBO // MAGO is a collaborative exhibition featuring Elizabeth Angell’s ikebana arrangements, with music created in response by Sam Pannifex.

The exhibition is a unique collaboration between a grandparent and her grandson. Elizabeth Angell has been an instructor of Sogetsu Ikebana for over 30 years; she was up until recently the Victorian director of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana. Sam Pannifex has been an active part of the Melbourne band Arbes for the past 8 years.

Purchase a ticket to the opening on Friday 24 June from 6:00-8:00pm. Light refreshments provided.

Please BYO phone to scan Q.R codes and headphones to listen to the musical arrangements.

Opening event: Friday 24 June, 6:00–8:00pm ($5 entry)
Dates: 25–26 June, 10:00am to 4:00pm (free entry)

SOBO // MAGO is supported by the Blackbird Foundation through their Protostars Grant Program.

Redesigning Waste: Pocket Politics Edition

Future Archive is the research-based project of RMIT BA Fashion Design graduate Melanie Read. Through the act of archiving discarded fashion items, Future Archive strives to understand contemporary consumer culture and explore possible outcomes that reassign value to materials otherwise deemed as waste.

Presented as part of Melbourne Design Week 2022, ‘Redesigning Waste: Pocket Politics Edition’ invites us as a group to come together to explore our pockets and the idea of pocket satisfaction. Participants are invited to bring along an example of a problematic pocket from their wardrobe for discussion and design an ‘intervention’.

Together we will question whether there is a universal ideal pocket to offer 100% pocket satisfaction, or if pocket satisfaction is in fact subjective.

Materials, refreshments and light food provided. Book a ticket now 

Date: Sunday, 27 March 2022, 1:00pm–4:00pm

TRACING AFTERLIVES: Challenging the ‘disposability’ of plastic waste offers a glimpse into the fascinating lives of plastic after its disposal.

Presented by Megan Wong, in collaboration with Ilya Fridman, view an exhibition of warped, melted, and marine-growth-covered plastic waste collected from the oceans of Queensland—and see the ways plastic continues to live after being thrown out.

This exhibition includes a free two-hour participatory workshop which provides an opportunity to meet Megan Wong and interact with the warped plastic objects first-hand.

Please register for the workshop on Friday, 25 March from 12:00pm until 2:00pm.

Dates: Friday 25 March, 2:30pm–5:00pm and Saturday 26 March, 10:00am–3:00pm

Transparent – Melbourne Design Week 2022

Curated by Misc Objet, Transparent explores how sustainable an object can really be. Thirteen emerging designers come together to produce an exhibition that reveals the sustainable and not-so-sustainable methods within their own practices. Documenting their processes they explore new materials, production methods and ways in which better their overall impact on the planet.

Contributors:
Aidan Renata, Billie Rivers, Bolaji Teniola, Casey Chong, Dalton Stewart, Jill Stevenson, Julian Leigh May, Lana Erneste, Lauren Lea Haynes, Mietta Greig-Hurting, Ryan Mueller, Sam Blomley, Tess Pirrie

Secure a ticket to attend the official opening of Transparent on Thursday, 17 March from 5:00pm until 9:00pm.

Opening event: 17 March 2022, 5:00pm–9:00pm (ticketed)
Dates: 18 March to 20 March 2022 (free entry)
Hours: Friday, 11:00–7:00pm, Saturday and Sunday, 10:00am–5:00pm

Jude Walton presents Marking the Horizon at Missing Persons from 12 to 13 March 2022. The performances explore the resilience and resistance of the natural world, ways to process sensory information, and how we might interact in new and shared environments through movement and dance.

Marking the Horizon will be performed by Hillary Goldsmith and Siobhan McKenna
Sound: Jude Walton, Zapsplat, and Metro Tunnel construction
Zoom and Technical Assistance: Douglas Hassack
Collaborative Choreography: Jude Walton, Gesa Piper, Hillary Goldsmith and Siobhan McKenna

Find info and tickets here

Dates: 12–13 March 2022, 2:00pm and 4:00pm

Internal Architecture is a new performance piece by artist Gabriella Imrichova

Imrichova’s practice is first and foremost concerned with formal experimentation, process-focused making and the destabilisation of the viewer through “failing” devices for live performance.

In this new work, Imrichova is joined by performers Caitlin Dear, Hayley Does, Lucy Rossen, Mara Galagher, Romaine Mcsweeney, and Tiffany Fiorucci for two short-duration performances at Missing Persons. The public is welcome to attend. Internal Architecture requires a $5 payment at the door.

For international and interstate audiences, please note that this work will be live-streamed via the artist’s Instagram.

Date: Saturday, 19 February 2022
Hours: 3:30pm-4:00pm and 8:30-9:00pm AEDT