Counter Point at State of Design 2010 is the culmination and public presentation of workshops and studios undertaken within Melbourne Central by the Department of Counter Culture.

These exhibitions confound use and exchange value as well as propose alternatives through installation, intervention and publication.  Combining the research of designers and artists Lynda Roberts, Caroline Vains and Anthony Mcinneny, and produced in collaboration with students from RMIT University’s Schools of Architecture and Design and School of Art, Counter Point presents a program of exhibitions about, with and in retail space.

These works are situated on the level 2 Lonsdale Street bridge, the workSHOP tenancy, shop 308 and throughout key locations within Melbourne Central.

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THURSDAY | July 15 – SUNDAY | July 24

‘Relation-Scapes’ will launch a range of designed, performed and constructed interventions in Melbourne Central that enable face-to-face exchanges that are relational and empathic rather than commodified. Launch: Thursday, July 15 at 6.30pm

‘Ecstatic Relationality and Window Shopping’ experiment with ‘Site-Writing’ (Jane Rendell) in a shopping context.  Installation and performance: Thursday, July 15 at 6.30pm

‘City Suburbia’ comprises digital installations in which suburban places of rapid circulation visit their urban retail relatives. Location: Ground floor off Drewery Lane; Level 3 Hoyt’s and workSHOP, shop 308 Melbourne Central.

‘Mapping Melbourne Central’ and ‘Public Art Intensive’ perform and exhibit visual and time-based responses that provoke questions of public space in Melbourne Central.   A launch and walking tour of installations will be conducted on Monday, July 19 at 6.30pm and Friday July23 from 11.00am –4.30pm.

FRIDAY| July 23

Lynda Roberts and Public Assembly will host ‘Alternative Directory’ which invites participants on a self-guided alternative-to-shopping tour of Melbourne Central on Friday, July 23.   Meet under the Melbourne Central clock 6.30pm.

COST:

Free.

TIME:

All exhibition launches are at 6.30pm – otherwise stated above.

July 15-July 24. Exhibition times are Melbourne Central trading hours.

LOCATION:

Level 2 Bridge,

Above Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Central

Cnr Latrobe Street and Swanston Street, Melbourne