Alaska Projects is a newly formed Sydney based Artist Run Initiative established to exhibit contemporary visual art in unused or disused spaces.
Alaska’s first project is to establish a project space in a forgotten mechanic’s office located in the basement of a Kings Cross car park.
Alaska’s first exhibition, Lorem Ipsum, opens in October 2011 and will feature the works of artists slated to show in the space over the 2011/12 exhibition program.
This program will include 11 exhibitions from a wide variety of artists and disciplines.
The project space measures a mere 5×5 metres and features a concrete floor with an original yellow parking bay line splitting it in two. It has been designed as a modular white cube space that artists are free to embrace or dramatically alter to create immersive environments for their work.
The Car Park project has been conceived to operate beyond the white cube of the project space with exhibition elements devised to occur in other areas of the car park including stairwells, elevators and common areas.
Alaska sees the isolated location of its inaugural project Car Park as positive, an inverted shop front, a cold and distant outpost that visitors need to search for, to discover.
Alaska acknowledges the generous support of the City of Sydney
