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Canberra Brasilia: curating across culture and difference is a long-form, cross-nation, collaborative project between curators, artists, researchers and educators from the world’s only 20th century planned, purpose-built national federal capitals of democratic nations.

The curatorial visual arts component of the Canberra Brasíia project began as a planned single exhibition of contemporary works from Canberra and Brasília artists, designed to travel to host galleries in both cities; the Canberra Contemporary Art Space in Canberra and the National Museum of Brazil in Brasília, in late 2021. The global onset of the Covid pandemic in 2020 signalled the end of this plan. As the reality of a very extended period of Covid changes in our world sank in, the project leads considered possible iterations that could accommodate the massive and ongoing restrictions experienced in both Brasilia and Canberra
During this period of rethinking, foregrounding of Canberra artists continued through student collaborative works stemming from the ANU 2020 and 2021 Masters course Collaborative Curating and Storytelling led by Dr Doyle Wawrzyńczak.
In mid-2020, the curators, Drs Doyle-Wawrzyńczak and Barbosa began working with one artist pair to develop the rules and methodology that would govern the new Covid iteration of the project. With support from the Scaffolding Co-creativity Project and the Australian Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS) at ANU, a new iteration, with three artist pairs working collaboratively online with the curators has begun. The exhibition resulting from these collaborations will launch online in early 2022.
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Trust and Language: Saskia Haalebos on Vulnerability in Collaboration…
in conversation with Chin-Jie Melodie Liu I met with Canberra based artist Saskia Haalebos on a sunny morning at her last group show, The Unsolicited Proposals Unit, in the new Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS) space beside Lake Burley Griffin.1…
Read MoreIllusions and Façades: the Work of Katy Mutton…
in conversation with Georgia Reed New and old Canberran residents and visitors alike have admired the National Capital with its distinctive architecture and unique fusion and integration of bush and built environments. Often ignored however, as we wander within Canberra’s…
Read MoreFind mirrors in displacement: Christus Nobrega
… in conversation with Hu Yisheng Brasilia Christus Nobrega is a Brazilian artist who travels between multiple communities and keeps an open mind to the various ideas he encounters. These communities leave marks in his works of art. Nobrega was…
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