Thursday, October 8, 2009

The project so far...

Our collaboration began in late 2006, emerging out of a year of chats over coffee, and cigarettes smoked together out of the kitchen window in the share-house where we both lived. One of us had a background in photography and fine art, the other in academia and activism. Both of us had moved to Melbourne from other cities, and were in that messy, slightly bewildering process of trying to put down roots. It was this, perhaps, that first stimulated our ramblings about place and change and urban neighborhoods. Then we started talking about travel, and then about participatory arts practice, and then about the inadequacy of disciplinary boundaries. And somehow, out of all of that, we ended up in a Brunswick coin laundry dressed as 1950s air hostesses…

Find out more at our website:
www.agentsofproximity.org

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