Milani Gallery – SEPTEMBER EXHIBITIONS

ENSAYOS: EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLY AN ORACLE
CARPARK

SAM CRANSTOUN: BETWEEN DYSTOPIA AND UTOPIA
GALLERY 1, 2 & 3

Opening event: Saturday 7 September, 5-7pm

Exhibition dates: 7 – 28 September 2019

Ensayos closing performance: Saturday 28 September, 2-4pm

This month in CARPARK we are presenting an exhibition by Ensayos, a nomadic collective research program initiated in Tierra del Fuego in 2010. The artists, scientists and scholars who partake in Ensayos meet intermittently to cross-pollinate and share their experiences on archipelagic intersections of identity, history, geography, language and law. In the weeks leading up to Everything is possibly an oracle, Caitlin Franzmann (lead of the Australia research pod), Christy Gast (lead of the New York research pod) and Camila Marambio (founder of Ensayos), along with Sarita Gálvez and Carla Macchiavello (also of Ensayos) spent time on the isles of Minjerribah and Canaipa. This exhibition presents video, sound and sculptural works from this field trip, alongside work from previous trips.

Across Gallery 1, 2 and 3, Between Dystopia and Utopia presents a suite of new work by Sam Cranstoun that explores the history of C.A. Doxiadis in Brisbane. Doxiadis was an accomplished town planner, architect and engineer who after arriving in Australia from Greece failed to have his qualifications recognised. After three years spent in Queensland farming tomatoes, Doxiadis returned to Athens where he immediately gained recognition, working as a town planner and architect throughout Europe, the Middle East, North and North East Africa, as well as the United States. He developed a system of town planning theory known as Ekistics, and would eventually found his own university in Athens.

The project by Ensayos is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

IMAGES: Ensayos Magnifying Feeling, Canaipa research image 2019. Sam Cranstoun ‘Building our cosmos’ detail from Between Utopia and Dystopia 2019, acrylic on cardboard.