Other Spaces Projects - Curatorial Agency | Public Art | Interventions

ABOUT

Other Spaces Projects is a curatorial agency that specialises in facilitating meaningful encounters with contemporary art. Its core activity is in curating, exhibition management, heritage interpretation, art education and the development & implementation of strategies for public art, off-site projects, and interventions in museums, historic contexts and unexpected places.

art&architecture

OUR SERVICES

The agency commissions, produces and curates durational art interventions, exhibitions and permanent public art installations to promote debate, provoke introspection and instigate dialogue between local, regional and international art. The interventions re/activate historic sites, facilitating a rediscovery of place, identifying, actualising and giving agency to diverse publics.

Other Spaces Projects both approaches and is approached by museums, institutions, galleries, and heritage sites, to present proposals or develop an already formulated concept for an exhibition, intervention or public artwork. The state of these proposals can range from a preliminary sketch to a complete, detailed project outline. In some cases, the institution may approach this curatorial agency with a nascent or developed concept and in other cases, extend an invitation to develop a proposal.

WHAT WE DO

EXHIBITIONS
curating | exhibition management | selection and promotion of local, regional and international artists | commissioning and producing new artworks | negotiating the sale of artworks

PUBLIC ART
project management | fabrication | engineering services for complex and monumental works of art in the public realm | art/site consultancy |

VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURE
virtual and augmented reality, games, mixed reality and 360 video content and applications for online platforms | services and consulting for the digital preservation of cultural heritage

RESEARCH
art education | publications | heritage interpretation | development and implementation of intervention and public art strategies

MISSION STATEMENT

This agency is motivated by a firm belief in the transforming power of art and considers contemporary art to be a means of affecting change through consolation, disturbance and the provocative questioning of commonly held values and widely accepted socio-cultural constructs. Interventions of contemporary art in unexpected places give diverse publics an opportunity to reflect on the complex tapestry of memories, mental associations and attitudes that shape our perspective and relationship to space in new and exciting ways.

On 'Other Spaces'

The name of this curatorial agency comes from Michel Foucault's 1967 essay 'Of Other Spaces,' where he used the term "Heterotopias" to describe places that serve as "counter-sites," existing outside of the ordinary. These 'Other Spaces' challenge and contest the space we live in. According to Foucault, 'Other Spaces' mirror, reflect, represent, and refer to ordinary sites, but at the same time suspend, neutralise, invert, and contradict those sites.