RMIT LA Semester Two Exhibition

The Semester Two 2023 RMIT Landscape Architecture Exhibition will showcase student work from across the BLAD and MLA Programs in the Design Hub Gallery

Opening Hours:

Friday November 24, 11:00 - 5pm

Friday November 24, 6-9pm (opening event)

Saturday November 25, 12:30am - 3:30pm

Curatorial Theme

Liminal Practices

“[Pierre] Bourdieu describes fields as social spaces where agents compete for various forms of capital […] The existence of liminal fields allows […] practices that misalign with the logic of the [banal] fields […] Liminal fields are temporary, erratic, and heterogeneous social spaces […] where agents expend excess energy in unproductive ways […]. Liminal fields are places where the ‘rules of the game’ are unclear and/or are different from the fields from which they emerge.” – Willey, 2016: 132.

As landscape architects, we work between fields and disciplines to produce landscapes of different scales, types, performances and affect. In recent years, the spaces between conventional fields of practice have mutated as a result of a total shift in the way we work together in the world. Atomised as a community of learning, we have been caught between ways of teaching, learning and practising as we work across the divide to produce ‘landscape’.

Remote and digital practices now coalesce with those in place and in contact with material. There is a productive tension at this threshold which is constricting and constructive all at once, altering the way we imagine, shape and communicate landscape knowledge. Landscape discourse has long sought to challenge familiar dichotomies: conventional and unconventional, analogue and digital, before and after, linear and non-linear, public and private; but now we face these challenges immediately, universally and in embodied ways as we work.

The exhibition will be open to the public Friday November 24 - Saturday November 25. The opening night celebration will take place from 6-8pm on November 24 in the RMIT Design Hub Gallery space. Students and staff in RMIT Landscape Architecture warmly invite students, staff, alumni, friends and family to celebrate a rich body of work at our Semester Two Exhibition, showcasing 'liminal practices' from the BLAD, MLA, and HDR programs.

Image created by Danny Rathjen
Exhibition Coordinators: Dr. Ha Thai & Kyle Bush

References

Willey, R.D., 2016. Liminal practice: Pierre Bourdieu, madness, and religion. Social Compass 63, 125–141. https://doi.org/10.1177/0037768615615529