Fremantle on the EDGE 2009
14 April - 6 June 2009
Curtin University of Technology Project Team
Fremantle on the EDGE is a first time interdisciplinary event being carried out as a forerunner to the establishment of a Creative Arts Biennale to be centered within the historic port City of Fremantle, Western Australia.
The project brings together internationally renowned Visiting Artists Maria Blaisse + Cocky Eek from the Netherlands, practicing art and design staff, together with students from Architecture + Interior Architecture + Fashion + Furniture + Product + Jewellery + Graphic Design.
The Fremantle on the Edge programme was launched this week with a three-day intensive workshop programme in the City of Fremantle for 300 staff and students from Curtin University of Technology. Artists, designers and students will be engaged in the process re-thinking the city’s public, private and commercial places and spaces. These workshops (and subsequent Master classes and presentations) will explore, investigate and re-examine specific sites around the City of Fremantle. Participants will engage in active experimentation with and manipulation of the spatial and temporal dimensions of the inhabited, urban environment, which makes up this exciting and engaging City.
The project aims to promote the engagement of the local community in dialogue and interaction with the ‘re-visioning’ process and re-examination of ideas about the City of Fremantle. This will be facilitated through interaction with artists and students involved in a wide range of research activities to be carried out in the streets of the city over the eight-week period of the project. Artists, designers and students will investigate the city through activity such as researching the cultural history, documenting existing scenarios, mapping the city and creating new scenarios. The exploration of this development and ideas that are generated as part of the project will be presented through a range of media including public pitches involving industry, student and staff discussions. Culminating in an exhibition including the installation and display of work occupying sites such as shop windows and public spaces throughout the City of Fremantle CBD in early June.
