Kym Maxwell is a Melbourne based multi-disciplinary artist and educator whose work incorporates but is not limited to video art installation, pedagogic projects, arts writing and curation. Kym’s research involves the power dynamics of care, pedagogic relationships and child’s play. Kym mines environments for their institutional frameworks, which can be expressed as tropes of the social curriculum, positioned through architecture, territories and language.
For the Summer School series, Kym will discuss details of the theatrical play ‘A Wharfie’s Story,’ (2015) in relation to the social experiment ‘Field 1968’, (2014). Both works explore socio-political relations and the dynamics of power, conflict, and autonomy within children’s work.
Image: Kym Maxwell (Director) ‘Field 1968’, 2014. Production still.
