RE-ORIENT / RE-ASSEMBLE was a weekend intensive developed by PUBLIC PALACE in collaboration with Merinda Davies. The lab was designed as a space for testing, reflection, and collective inquiry, supporting artists and practitioners to critically re-examine how their practices operate in relation to public space.

The intensive brought together a group of participants to RE-ORIENT their practice through a series of gently disruptive activities designed to unsettle habitual ways of working. RE-ASSEMBLE reconfigured ideas, methods and approachesthrough collaborative provocations, offered in response to the site and surrounding public context.

Participants were invited to consider public space as both the site and situation for their work. Activities focused on engaging with more-than-human perspectives, conducting sensory readings of immediate surroundings, developing relationships to place and testing alternative methods for working in and with public space. Together we created a collaborative manifesto to frame the intention and working principles for the intensive.

This program was delivered at 2nd Space in Nambour on Kabi Kabi Country, as part of ArtsCoast ProjectLAB, facilitated by Sunshine Coast Council.

Photography by Warwick Gow.