Know Thy Neighbour is SPACED’s metro-focused residency program that commissions socially engaged, context-responsive art projects embedded in Perth’s neighbourhoods. The program asks communities and artists alike to step beyond habitual encounters with their surroundings—to explore scenarios that defamiliarise and recontextualise “the local.”

Know Thy Neighbour #4: Gestures asks artists to transmit ideas grounded in physical environments, investigating acts of connection and reciprocity in their projects to uncover relational possibilities and mutual understanding. Gestures can be quiet or bold, habitual or improvised, yet they often carry deep social, cultural and historical weight. Whether physical or intangible, present or absent, explicit or implied, Gestures offer a generative space for artists to respond to the complexity of metropolitan Perth with attentiveness, curiosity, and care; embracing co-creation as a form of exchange, and artistic practice as a way of listening.