MMeets
Swoop Sight

Free!

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Learn about how public art can shape its surroundings—and influence design in the city!

Join Julian O’Shea, founder and CEO of global educational social enterprise, Unbound, in a talk about the controversial history, and influential legacy, of Vault. The 1980 geometric abstract sculpture by Ron Robertson-Swann, is now situated outside ACCA, a short walk away from MPavilion.

Using the visual language of Vault and the surroundings of MPavilion, we will then make our own portable infinite reflection devices: kaleidoscopes!

With mirrors, mailing tubes, pebbles, grass and leaves that catch your eye, we’ll each make a kaleidoscope to see MPavilion reflecting, in an endless array of potential patterns.

We would like to acknowledge that Swoop Sight is held on, and engages with, the stolen land of the people of the Eastern Kulin Nations.

This event has been developed as part of the M_Curators, an MPavilion program engaging young makers, doers and programmers. This initiative is made possible by our presenting partner Bloomberg Philanthropies.


VAULT in the city:

*images provided by Julian O’Shea

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.