CAST Reacts

Conceived from a collaboration with ACCA's Who’s Afraid of Public Space expanded exhibition, CAST Reacts is an initiative which aims to expand public art projects by extending discourse to site-based public works. The project broaden audiences by activating critical conversations and creative responses to the works.

Call out for multimedia responses including sketches, poetry, sound recordings, critical writing and photography. We invite you to experience the plethora of public works in Victoria and to send through your creative responses to it. If you have any questions, please contact CAST via email cast@rmit.edu.au.

Melissa T. Him on Hoang Tran Nguyen's Work, Worker

Title Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten V.2

Artist Name Melissa T. Him

Social Media @tidah__studio @meli____h

Reflection Karaoke, particularly in Cambodian culture, is often an event where the older generation come together to sing, dance, and remember a time that was — a lively era of music that existed prior to the Khmer Rouge takeover; a fatal war that took many of our people including its artists and musicians away. This event reminded me of these celebratory times and also, a documentary Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten that educates the rise and fall of our music and even more so, gives insight as to why karaoke is such a favourite activity amongst our mums, dads, and grandparents. This artwork represents the effect and feeling music has on us past, present, and future: nostalgic yet euphoric.

Aimy Nguyen on Hoang Tran Nguyen's Work, Worker

Title Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Artist Name Aimy Nguyen

Social Media @aimy_final_final

Reflection Participating in Hoang Tran Nguyen's artwork and learning about the building's history was an eye opening experience. I wanted to create something that subverted its historical power as a racist, masculine force, and show the triumph of its modern antithesis.

Temitope Adesina on Laressa Kosloff's Public Announcements

Title Untitled

Artist Name Temitope Adesina

Reflection Response to Laresa Kosloff's Public Announcements - "the idea was to incorporate the digital public with the physical environment, it considers instagram comments as a public announcement, separate to a conversation and a form of projecting statements into a digital void. Reshootting/recasting these comments in a physical space is intended to find adjacencies and second hand narratives that may not have otherwise been drawn. The process of the double exposure on film was important and chosen instead of superimposing to reduce control of context, text pairing, placement and exact framing of the image."

Flora Carbo and Lilian Steiner on Laressa Kosloff's Public Announcements

Artist Names Flora Carbo, Lilian Steiner

Website https://floracarbo.com/, https://www.liliansteiner.com/

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