Agents of Proximity is a local, artist-run travel service, based in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick. It's an exploration of the ways in which the rituals and mindsets associated with travel can be applied to the spaces we inhabit, the streets we walk down daily, the places that we think we know. There are a myriad of different ways in which people experience the same neighbourhood, the same shared geographical space.
Multiple worlds co-exist, one on top of the other. It's all about trying to move between these worlds, finding the points where they connect, or don't.
For the past few months the Agents of Proximity have been taking people from Brunswick on travels within their own neighbourhood, creating new encounters between people, and between people and places. The result is an exhibition of photographic/textual works and the launch of the Brunswick Travel Guide, all happening out of a coin laundry masquerading as a Travel Agency. Drop in, see the exhibition, go on a tour in the time it takes to do a load of washing. Get the Guide Book and discover a whole new way of travelling.
There will also be special events on throughout the Festival.
The Agents of Proximity will be opening their exhibition and launching the Brunswick Travel Guide on Friday 16th May at the Brunswick Coin Laundry (address above) from 6-9pm.
Contact us at agentsofproximity(at)gmail(dot)com
About the artists
Tori Stead is a writer and artist with a background in non-fiction writing, particularly in radical politics, local history, and journalism. Her work explores themes connected with changing notions of community and human relationships, social movements and resistance. Tori has been involved in a number of art and performance projects, including the Melbourne Radical Cheerleaders and various squatted space ‘empty shows’ throughout the city. She also works at RMIT University, as part of a research institute doing community sustainability projects in the Asia-Pacific. She has won a number of awards for non-fiction pieces, and has had work published in Arena Magazine and other Melbourne-based publications.
Amy Spiers is an artist and writer. Since 2006 she has been documenting the interaction between strangers in The Photobooth Project which has appeared at Melbourne Fringe, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival and The White Street Project in Frankston. Her work explores the artist’s capacity to facilitate and produce unlikely connections and relationships. As an emerging arts writer, Amy has participated in the 2006/2007 Emerging Writers Program, run by Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and Express Media. She has written for Artlink Magazine, RMIT gallery and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces.
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