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During the late 1960s, following events such as the Vietnam war and popular up-risings in Paris and elsewhere, a new artistic movement, focused on political and social activism, began to emerge. Artists began to move away from creating precious, discrete art objects to instigating dynamic situations, installations, happenings and interactive audience projects.

Power to the People, created by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art for the Melbourne International Arts Festival, presents works from over 15 Australian and international artists who have revisited, revised and revitalized these art-making strategies. Works shown by artists including Dora Garcia, Fiona Macdonald, Jonathan Monk and Mario Garcia Torres, demonstrate a move away from the art 鈥榦bject鈥�, into more performative, documentative, research and participatory modes of art making.

The exhibition also celebrates the role the audience plays within this expanded field of art making, often becoming part of the work itself.

Curated by ACCA Associate Curator Hannah Mathews, Power to the People considers current artistic practices in light of the strategies employed by the pioneers of Conceptual Art in the 1960s and 70s, and contemplates their contemporary adaptation, expansion and legitimacy in the 21st century.

Exhibiting artists: Peter Friedl, Olaf Nicolai, Dora Garcia, Roman Ondak, Fiona Macdonald, Jonathan Monk, Kirsten Pieroth, Stuart Ringholt, J谩n Man膷u拧ka, Nathasha Johns-Messenger, Seth Price, Mario Garcia Torres, Goldin + Senneby, Lucas Ihlein & Ian Milliss, Derek Sullivan and the Post project, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Matthew Shannon


Presented by Melbourne International Arts Festival and ACCA