Book Launch: Let's Go Outside: Art in Public

A book launch for Let's Go Outside: Art in Public will be held as part of the Melbourne Art Fair 2022 program at INDEPENDENT: a library space presented by three independent booksellers and publishers in the Concourse of the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Publication editors Charlotte Day, Callum Morton and Amy Spiers will be in-conversation in advance of the bookstore release of this new publication, which features contributions from twenty-five leading Australian and international artists, writers and curators including Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera, Indonesian artist collective ruangrupa, British art historian and critic Claire Bishop, and Gunditjmara artist and senior knowledge custodian Vicki Couzens.

Let’s Go Outside is a timely examination of creative practices in the public realm. From negotiating space in the settler–colonial context of Australia to responding to crises in the United States, Hong Kong and New Zealand, the reader’s essays, case studies, interviews and visual contributions reveal how ideas and practices associated with remembrance, public history, urban regeneration, communality, accessibility and activism are challenging and innovating art in the public domain.

Let’s Go Outside takes up questions from the successful 2019 symposium Let’s Go Outside: Making Art Public, presented by Monash University Museum of Art and Monash Art Projects, and reflects on the growing interest in making and presenting art outside of conventional gallery contexts.

Published by Monash University Museum of Art, Monash Art Projects and Monash University Publishing. Designed by Stuart Geddes and Žiga Testen. Available in March 2022. Pre-order this book via Monash University Publishing.

The Melbourne Art Fair is Australasia’s progressive forum for contemporary art and ideas, held 17-20 February 2022 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition centre and featuring solo shows and works of scale and significance from over 50 of the region’s leading galleries.

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