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Know Thy Neighbour #3: Elham Eshragian-Haakansson

Working closely with the Victoria Park Community Centre, Know Thy Neighbour #3 video artist Elham Eshragian-Haakansson articulates through moving image, text, and installation, the deep complexities embedded within the experience of home/less/ness felt by the community of Victoria Park.

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Know Thy Neighbour #3: Amy Perejuan-Capone

Welcome to the wonderfully whacky world of Know Thy Neighbour #3 artist Amy Perejuan-Capone, and her community-informed interpretation of the City of Melville! Drawing from her own love of dogs and experience as a dog-mum, Amy started her residency acutely aware of the strong bonds between humans and dogs.

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Know Thy Neighbour #3: After hours opening with Santoor live performance

As an after-hours continuation of the Know Thy Neighbour #3 exhibition, Ashkaan Hadi, will play Santoor durationally in conversation with the archives of his sisters work during her residency with Victoria Community Centre. This is an intimate conversation between the two, as Elham’s reflections with St.Mary’s Outreach Service, she questioned the idea of home being a place or a feeling. The live performance is an active initiation of this.

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Know Thy Neighbour #3: Olga Cironis and Duncan Wright

Olga Cironis and Duncan Wright were collaborative partners in their Know Thy Neighbour #3 residency, working with the City of Armadale. The pair drew inspiration for their work from a series of staged encounters with residents of the Harrisdale and Piara Waters areas.

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Know Thy Neighbour #3: Yabini Kickett

Working with the town of East Fremantle, Know Thy Neighbour #3 artist Yabini Kickett initially approached her residency with the intention to work with the youth of the neighbourhood, investigating what connected them to place.

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Know Thy Neighbour #3: Catalogue

The Know Thy Neighbour #3 exhibition catalogue is intended to be read as a companion piece to the works on show at Cullity Gallery until 25 March 2023.

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Know Thy Neighbour #3: Unrestrained Passion for Armadale in the Examiner Newspapers

Olga Cironis and Duncan Wright’s interventional artwork Unrestrained Passion for Armadale has taken over the latest edition of the Examiner Newspapers.

The paper, which has regular distribution across the City of Armadale, City of Gosnells, and the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale, features a double-page spread of portrait shots of residents to the Harrisdale/Piara Waters neighbourhoods, who have spent time with the artists over this month and offered their insight into their relationship with its changing landscape. The artwork, is also one out of a series of interventions that Cironis and Wright have facilitated with the provocation to investigate belonging within the social and cultural landscape of Armadale.

The quote “Unrestrained Passion For Armadale” takes from a reflection made by a local resident when considering with the artists their sense of place within the Armadale community.

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Know Thy Neighbour #3: Unrestrained Passion for Armadale #1

If you live within the City of Armadale, City of Gosnells, or the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale, you may have caught a glimpse of this image in yesterday’s edition of the Examiner Newspapers.

Together Cironis and Wright have been meeting with members of the Harrisdale/Piara waters community to gather stories and photo documentation, which will be slowly released over this month and later culminating in an exhibition at Cullity Gallery in February 2023.

Keep your eyes peeled for more mentions in the paper to see what more is to come.

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Know Thy Neighbour #3 event: Yabini Kickett in East Fremantle

Birth, in all its forms, is a continuation of a legacy; a narrative about what once was, and glimpse at what could be to come. In a post-settler context of built developments, birth provides an avenue to interrogate our relationship with the changing environment around us. A Child Was Born Here pulls into focus the specific lived experiences in East Fremantle, and how its stories surrounding birth have contributed to the cultural memory of place.

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Know Thy Neighbour #3 artist focus: Duncan Wright

Through our programming, we have the opportunity to work alongside many diverse artists to realise an ambitious series of public activations. In the Know Thy Neighbour #3 program, artist Olga Cironis has been collaborating with Duncan Wright to investigate the relationships that the community of Armadale have to their place of dwelling.

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