City Mobilities was a two-day workshop in collaboration that explores ideas about the way we access and move in public spaces. Led by SA artists Tom Borgas and Paul Gazzola (OSCA Artistic Director), 14 emerging and established artists working across visual arts, performance, urban planning and social sciences explored how we can rethink and reconfigure the city’s infrastructure into other forms and functionalities.
The workshop explored a variety of methodologies and approaches to highlight, question and renegotiate the importance of individual participation in public space. Each participant was invited to research various city sites and public spaces and develop a series of conceptual and physical responses in a collaborative studio-based set up.
City Mobilities is the second outcome of an ongoing partnership between The Mill and OSCA and was supported by the City Of Adelaide. This workshop is a precursor to the development of a longer collaborative public art project and workshop series planned over the next two years.
Workshop dates: 14 & 15 Oct 2020 at The Mill Breakout Space and city streets.
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Lead Artists
Tom Borgas is an Adelaide-based visual artist working from a sculptural foundation across multiple platforms including gallery and project work, public sculpture, festival interventions, performance and education. His research finds its inspiration in the blurry spaces between image and object, virtual and physical, maker and viewer. Borgas’ work has been shown at galleries and venues across Australia. His practice continues to expand through commissioning agents including UAP, Stockroom and MARS gallery Melbourne, the City of Adelaide and the Adelaide Festival Centre. His practice has also been supported through organisations that include the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts South Australia, NAVA, Guildhouse and The Helpmann Academy.
OSCA AD Paul Gazzola is an artist and curator working in the expanded field of participatory art practice, contemporary performance, sculpture, scenography and video. Over the last 25 years he has generated an innovative array of projects that explore the relationship between the body, site and the built environment. These works for stages, galleries, museums, site-specific settings and print have been commissioned and presented in Australia and internationally.