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The "Reading the Space" exhibition curated by Dr.Irene Baraberis explores the research parameters identified by Foucault's notion of "heterotopia". The exhibition allowed for 88 separate and wildly differing individual art practices to be exhibited on mass in order to postuslate that visions of Utopia may be explored through the premise that all the drawings exhibited act simultaneously as portals to a similarly complex pyschological world of connected contradicions and alliances.
Another exhibition that explored this theme in 2012 was "Heterotopia" at the UCSD in 2012. Reading the Space extended this research into the idea of Utopianian plurality with the premise that each drawing acts as metraphorical portal to the "other" world of communal responses based on memory,discourse, critique, riddle and theatre. (I.Barberis 2013).
The exhibition was reviewed by Thomas Mitchell In "Hyperallergic ; Sensitive Art and it's Discontents" (http://hyperallergic.com/79375/reading-in-the-dark-drawings-from-australia/) in which the contradictions inherent in seeking a pluarality of responses mirror the difficulties in identifying unified or Utopian vision as a useful platform for delving deeply into individual practices and their visions.
The work exhibited by me in this exhibition continued to explore a research pardigm I have been interested in reseaching for some time in exhibitions ( "Shifting Through Plastic Gods" V.C.A Gallery 2014, 'Action Stations" Linden Art Galery 2011); that is, how may a historical artistic visual style ( or language be ) be re-visited in order to explore links between Modernity, Post-modernism and the desire of the individual to communicate to others on a subconcious level.
Reading the Space is part of a larger and ongoing series of international drawing exhibitions organised by The Global Centre for Drawing and acts to extend the research into, and sum of, the current body of knowledge into international contemporary drawing.