Submissions and expressions of interest are open for Making fun @SCALE, a satellite exhibition held during the this year’s National Architecture Conference in Perth.
Playing on the ‘making’ theme of the 2014 National Architecture Conference, Making fun: @SCALE explores the power of scale relative to our built environments. The exhibtion is inspired by the Charles and Ray Eames’ classic 1977 short film, Powers of Ten, made for the IBM office. Centred around a picnic by a lake in Chicago, the film zooms out every ten seconds, ten times further away into outer space, to observe the percptual shifts of distance and scale, before zooming back into earth at microscopic scale.
Similarly, the curatorial premise of the Making fun: @SCALE exhibition centres on designers exploring a common theme or idea from an intimate scale to vast one.
The curators are seeking submissions from across the creative disciplines of architecture, urban desigm, visual arts, furniture and object design. They are prinicpally seeking physical objects for the exhibition, although photography will also be considered. Submissions should include:
- A single image of the work
- Title and literal description (materials, dimensions and scale)
- Short biography of the participant (50 words)
- Abstract detailing concept and context of the object (200 words).
Enquiries and submissions for Making fun: @SCALE should be emailed in a single A4 document to Making fun: @SCALE by 16 March. Selected works will be on public display at QV1 in Perth. The National Architecture Conference is held in Perth 8-10 May 2014.
