PUBLIC PALACE (Grace Dewar and Laurie Oxenford) is an interdisciplinary artist collective collaborating across research, installation, performance and participatory encounters. Their experimental projects are a response to the social, critical and material potentials of public space. By speculating about value, their work *attempts* to offer new ways of experiencing and disrupting everyday situations and systems that invite radical civic participation. PUBLIC PALACE moves within processes of friendship and psychogeography to form new material and non-material dialogues.

PUBLIC PALACE work under the assumption that anywhere that *work* takes place becomes the studio. In this way, their projects often take on a residency framework which allows for continuous work in a set period of time, where the outcomes are constantly evolving via live and durational conditions. This way of working demands a constant openness to chance and collaborative risk taking.

PUBLIC PALACE applies anarchist principles to their processes and collaborative structures, negotiating responsive terms for how their projects evolve and who contributes. They operate and act with non-commercial intentions.

MANIFESTO
All experiments are valid
Prioritising First Nations peoples and perspectives
Disruptive experiences
Decentring individualism through collaboration
Accessibility, inclusivity and reciprocity
Temporal and durational projects
Interrogation of ideas through research and experimentation
Knowledge sharing and organisational transparency
Openness to chance
Commitment to community – valuing time with people and place
Best practice – sustainable, ethical and critical
Anti-hierarchy
Non-commercial intentions
Resourcefulness
Multi-contextual – institution, studio and public space
Open communication, honesty and kindness
Asking for what you need.

COLLABORATORS
Grace Dewar
Laurie Oxenford
Bronte Naylor
Merinda Davies
Lewis Lewis

TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT
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︎  palacepublic@gmail.com