And, &, The Middle Playground - PhD Exhibition
Join us for the opening of Nick Selenitsch's PhD exhibition, And, &, The Middle Playground on the 9th of September, 2023 from 3-5pm.
And, &, The Middle Playground at MADA Gallery is the practical component Nick Selenitsch’s PhD candidature, titled The Middle Playground. The artworks presented here —Limbo (2023); Maze (2023); and, & (2018-19) — are key examples that practically demonstrate core aspects of the research.
The Middle Playground explores how play can be employed as a framework for understanding artistic experience: both in the reception of art and in its creation. It is an endeavour that embraces paradoxical mergers — minglings —exemplified by play, and culturally defined at its outer limits by sport and games.
This is an arena where the serious is also frivolous, the inconclusive becomes conclusive, and where there is an acute awareness that comes from being lost in the task — becoming “thoughtfully playful,” in other words.
Event Details
- Date:
- 6 September 2023 at 10:00 am – 23 September 2023 at 5:00 pm
- Venue:
- MADA Gallery, Building D, Caulfield campus
- Categories:
- Fine Art; Current Students; Gallery / Exhibition; Gallery: MADA Gallery
Description
Join us for the opening of Nick Selenitsch's PhD exhibition, And, &, The Middle Playground on the 9th of September, 2023 from 3-5pm.
And, &, The Middle Playground at MADA Gallery is the practical component Nick Selenitsch’s PhD candidature, titled The Middle Playground. The artworks presented here —Limbo (2023); Maze (2023); and, & (2018-19) — are key examples that practically demonstrate core aspects of the research.
The Middle Playground explores how play can be employed as a framework for understanding artistic experience: both in the reception of art and in its creation. It is an endeavour that embraces paradoxical mergers — minglings —exemplified by play, and culturally defined at its outer limits by sport and games.
This is an arena where the serious is also frivolous, the inconclusive becomes conclusive, and where there is an acute awareness that comes from being lost in the task — becoming “thoughtfully playful,” in other words.