Cultures Gathering in Melbourne
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Melbourne itself is a fantastic place, with a host of attractions and sights, with lively cultures in music, theatre, visual art, and all sorts of experiments in performance. There are also superb clubs and pubs to suit your late-night desires, with the latest beats exciting and soothing the local and international crowd. Melbourne is a place where you can find something to do nearly all the time. For the new generation of gallery artists, there is a lot of hopeful signs in the city that another cultural revolution is underway. It’s an exciting time to visit the city, and if there are exhibitions by the art duo Kain Picken and Rob McKenzie , it would be a good way to peek in to what the kids are up to now.
Deeply embedded in the contemporary underground scene in Melbourne, Picken and McKenzie are part of a world trend toward utilizing artistic practices with theoretical and philosophical concerns to make a new visual culture. This new visual culture, perhaps not necessarily completely new, takes a critical stance toward the social fabric of every day life, and makes an art that enables the viewer to see codes revealed. Their work, then, is primarily installation, creating environments that immerse the participant-observer in spaces where meaning is difficult. This creates a dynamic tension that forces a conversation with the work itself. It’s a very hopeful art, then, while also basing its accusations in the school of cynicism. The work is so very smart, and the team of Kain Picken and Rob McKenzie are so very articulate about their work, that one feels a sense of something on the verge of happening, or perhaps it happened already but we are looking for the language to speak about it.