RMIT:ART:INTERSECT
Australia’s RMIT University is ranked 16th in the world for art and design, which positions it as the top art school in the country. The School of Art fosters innovative and diverse art practice and research within visual art, fine art, public art, and arts management. The School manages INTERSECT—six creative projects that together form a dynamic program of exhibitions, residencies, creative laboratories, talks and events. These projects consider and use contemporary art as a means of intersecting with and enriching our University community, as well as our broader local and global ones. They are PROJECT SPACE, SPARE ROOM, SITUATE, SITE EIGHT, the LIGHTSCAPES and SPEAKER.
PROJECT SPACE is a gallery that links prominent exemplars of practice-based research with Melbourne’s creative communities through a dynamic program of contemporary art projects. Housed in RMIT University’s Building 94, we run a dynamic program of exhibitions and events from February to December.
Location: RMIT Bld 94 Lv 2 Rm 1, 23-27 Cardigan Street, Carlton, VIC, 3053
Opening Hours (during exhibition periods): Monday & Tuesday by appointment only, Wednesday to Friday 10am – 5pm (Thursday open late until 8pm), Saturday 12 – 4pm
SPARE ROOM is a gallery space adjacent to PROJECT SPACE in RMIT’s Building 94. Both of these gallery programs are aligned such that exhibitions launch and run together and are often conceptually linked. SPARE ROOM acts as a small space for large ideas—it is a keyhole into a rich variety of potential conversations, from blue skies to deep dives.
Location: RMIT Bld 94 Lv 2 Rm 2, 23-27 Cardigan Street, Carlton, VIC, 3053
Opening Hours (during exhibition periods): Monday & Tuesday by appointment only, Wednesday to Friday 10am – 5pm (Thursday open late until 8pm), Saturday 12 – 4pm
SITUATE (previously RMIT iAIR, the international Artist in Residence program) is a residency program for artists, curators and researchers. SITUATE connects people through art by creating onsite real-time opportunities for creative experimentation, cross-cultural dialogue and global mobility. At its core, this project believes that one of the best ways to enable and generate a great discussion is to simply shorten the physical distance between two ideas.
SITE EIGHT (previously RMIT School of Art Gallery) is a gallery situated in the heart of the School. It derives its name from its physical location in room 8 of RMIT’s building 2. SITE EIGHT is a dynamic multi-purpose art space that professionally services the various needs of the School’s programs and student communities. The gallery maintained a regular public program of exhibitions from 2005 to 2014 but is now publicly programmed on an ad hoc basis.
Location: RMIT Bld 2 Lv 2, Bowen Street (off Latrobe St), Melbourne, VIC, 3000
Opening Hours (during exhibition periods): varies by exhibition
LIGHTSCAPES is a public art project that connects to the very fabric of the city—enriching, critiquing and reconsidering notions of audience, site and public space through art.
Location: In and around RMIT Bld 2, 24, Rodda Lane and Knox Place (Melbourne Central), Melbourne, VIC, 3000
Opening Hours (Building 2 and 24): visible Monday to Friday 9am – 6pm
Opening Hours (Rodda Lane and Knox Place): visible 7 day a week 24 hour
SPEAKER creates a space to come together to listen to, think about and discuss ideas. It is a series of talks by contemporary artists and curators, and it offers a chance to engage with a range of art practices and cultural issues—from the emerging to the established—the local to the international. SPEAKER is presented by RMIT School of Art, Art History and Theory and INTERSECT. The talks are open to the public and will take place at the RMIT city campus on Wednesdays at lunchtime during the semester period.
