The School of Design and the Built Environment (DBE) in collaboration with the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI), organised an exhibition of the Italian Architect and artist Professor Mario Panizza as part of the Giornata del Contemporaneo 2022. For the theme of the event, the aim was to promote Italian contemporary art abroad, is Ecology.
The initiative, curated by AMACI – Associazione dei Musei d’Arte Contemporanea Italiana, was realised with the support of the Direzione Generale Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the General Directorate for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
The exhibition, titled “Mario Panizza: reflections from Italy”, was and is the first step to establishing an ongoing collaboration between the Italian Consulate and Curtin Faculty of Humanities, through the encounter of Italian and Australian humanist cultures to promote higher education, research, and industry cooperation between the two countries, with a focus on cultural sustainability and sustainable urban development.
Our experience of Limen – ‘At the fence’ will encourage empathy and provides an alternative view of the Stolen Generation experience that has been distorted, filtered and transformed through a colonial lens. ‘At the fence’ holds a hope that Indigenous and non-Indigenous people of Australia will hold hands and cross over the fence.
