P.D.F.* Exchange
*Portable Demonstration Facility
P.D.F. Exchange, P.D.F. Exchange, 2017, Variable, interdiscplinary. Photo: Ceri Hann
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Map reference number: 45
High Top Van
Roaming Various Radiant Pavilion event locations 26 August – 3 September
Sun–Mon 6–8pm Artist/s: Roseanne Bartley, Ceri Hann & Lynda Roberts
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P.D.F. Exchange co-produces a performative and social compendium of jewellery concepts and techniques, with input drawn from Melbourne’s contemporary jewellery maker community.
Operating from a studio located in a converted high-top van situated on the streets of Melbourne, P.D.F. Exchange activates alongside programmed Radiant Pavilion events.
Synthesising DIY tutorials with traditional training methods, P.D.F. Exchange facilitates an alternate framework for how-to transmission. The project acquires momentum through daily repetition of a jeweller’s task with conceptual and technical resolutions generated via demonstration - sharing of specialised know-how between a revolving guest ‘teacher’ and an aspiring in residence ‘student’.
Stylistic variations are observed, abstracted and annotated as sequences of movement. These notations are gifted to contributing makers and relayed to the wider public via conversational and PDF formats.
By facilitating exchange, discourse and distribution in public space, P.D.F. Exchange playfully re-articulates institutionalised methods and established economies for disseminating making knowledge.
Operating from a studio located in a converted high-top van situated on the streets of Melbourne, P.D.F. Exchange activates alongside programmed Radiant Pavilion events.
Synthesising DIY tutorials with traditional training methods, P.D.F. Exchange facilitates an alternate framework for how-to transmission. The project acquires momentum through daily repetition of a jeweller’s task with conceptual and technical resolutions generated via demonstration - sharing of specialised know-how between a revolving guest ‘teacher’ and an aspiring in residence ‘student’.
Stylistic variations are observed, abstracted and annotated as sequences of movement. These notations are gifted to contributing makers and relayed to the wider public via conversational and PDF formats.
By facilitating exchange, discourse and distribution in public space, P.D.F. Exchange playfully re-articulates institutionalised methods and established economies for disseminating making knowledge.
a.-b. P.D.F. Exchange 2017, interdisciplinary, variable dimensions. Photo: Ceri Hann
About the Artist
Roseanne Bartley works across an expanded approach to making through a practice she describes as facilimaking. As a hybrid method facilimaking operates as a facility to reflexively think through the discipline of contemporary jewellery and facilitates making through social, performative and transient strategies. Bartley is currently enrolled in a PhD in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University and teaches at Monash University in Melbourne Australia. Recent publications include https://artjewelryforum.org/an-encounter-with-necklace-1978, and exhibitions After Wearing: A History of Gestures, Actions and Jewelry, Pratt Institute, New York.
Ceri Hann is a Melbourne based multidisciplinary arts practitioner. His practice consists of developing participatory art forms intended to enhance collective idea generation. He uses accessible low-tech devices to engage people that may not consider themselves artists, enabling them to explore the dynamics of public space. The gifting of metaphorical objects to instigate philosophical discourse is a recent development that stems from his recent PhD research.
Lynda Roberts operates at the intersection between art and design – working across a range of scales from the public realm to the wearable. Drawing on a background of architecture, festival and radio production, she develops frameworks and spatial conditions that support creative thinking through action. As Program Manager of Public Art Melbourne, Lynda supports artists to realise their ideas for city sites, to interpret its places and invent new experiences.
Roseanne Bartley works across an expanded approach to making through a practice she describes as facilimaking. As a hybrid method facilimaking operates as a facility to reflexively think through the discipline of contemporary jewellery and facilitates making through social, performative and transient strategies. Bartley is currently enrolled in a PhD in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University and teaches at Monash University in Melbourne Australia. Recent publications include https://artjewelryforum.org/an-encounter-with-necklace-1978, and exhibitions After Wearing: A History of Gestures, Actions and Jewelry, Pratt Institute, New York.
Ceri Hann is a Melbourne based multidisciplinary arts practitioner. His practice consists of developing participatory art forms intended to enhance collective idea generation. He uses accessible low-tech devices to engage people that may not consider themselves artists, enabling them to explore the dynamics of public space. The gifting of metaphorical objects to instigate philosophical discourse is a recent development that stems from his recent PhD research.
Lynda Roberts operates at the intersection between art and design – working across a range of scales from the public realm to the wearable. Drawing on a background of architecture, festival and radio production, she develops frameworks and spatial conditions that support creative thinking through action. As Program Manager of Public Art Melbourne, Lynda supports artists to realise their ideas for city sites, to interpret its places and invent new experiences.
