2023 PROGRAM
ARTifacts FROM THE FUTURE
Changing the World...in small and creative ways
For 10 years, our program has been completely free, and focuses on taking art to people who need and deserve it the most; addressing the most important social, environmental and political issues of our times.
1 JUNE - 31 DECEMBER, 2023
ARTifacts FROM THE FUTURE
"How can we meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet?"
The 2023 creative framework is all about creating things for a better future.
Art can help glimpse into this potential future and begin to create the tools, ideas, mapping, solutions-based artefacts that all cultivate a vision of a world that works…better.
The official Micro Galleries 2023 Program will be launched in June, 2023 as well as artist callouts throughout the second half of the year. For a glimpse and to register your interest in projects, scroll down madly!
The 2023 creative framework is all about creating things for a better future.
Art can help glimpse into this potential future and begin to create the tools, ideas, mapping, solutions-based artefacts that all cultivate a vision of a world that works…better.
The official Micro Galleries 2023 Program will be launched in June, 2023 as well as artist callouts throughout the second half of the year. For a glimpse and to register your interest in projects, scroll down madly!
NOvember, 2023
Micro Galleries Live: Chiang Mai
A 10 day guerrila public art festival.
Partner Organisation Callout
THAILAND // CHIANG MAI. Hey You!
Do you work with community and creatives? Are you keen on cool interventions that are collaborative, grassroots, and are micro scale with macro impact? Are you interested in convening an amazing group of socially-conscious international creatives with local artists to explore local and global shared issues and produce a solutions-based vision?
We are looking for you!!
Micro Galleries Live festival is 10 years old (whaaaaat!?) and to celebrate, our festival this year will be in Thailand. Of course we don't just swagger up and plonk out some art. Instead, we work closely with a local partner group or organisation to collaboratively create a festival that the local community wants and needs. Our international artists work closely with local artists, we work closely with our partners and together, magic happens.
If this is something that would interest you, we would love to chat. Our Expression of Interest link is below. Please click and we will be in touch!
Applications Open until 18 May.
Do you work with community and creatives? Are you keen on cool interventions that are collaborative, grassroots, and are micro scale with macro impact? Are you interested in convening an amazing group of socially-conscious international creatives with local artists to explore local and global shared issues and produce a solutions-based vision?
We are looking for you!!
Micro Galleries Live festival is 10 years old (whaaaaat!?) and to celebrate, our festival this year will be in Thailand. Of course we don't just swagger up and plonk out some art. Instead, we work closely with a local partner group or organisation to collaboratively create a festival that the local community wants and needs. Our international artists work closely with local artists, we work closely with our partners and together, magic happens.
If this is something that would interest you, we would love to chat. Our Expression of Interest link is below. Please click and we will be in touch!
Applications Open until 18 May.
NOvember, 2023
PROJECT / FORWARD: 2049
A pop-up global moving image and projection art festival where artists get to plan the future: The Year 2049
What If Artists Planned The Future?
What if artists were in charge of planning and imagining what the world would be like in the year 2049?
Project/Forward: 2049 is a free, micro, global projection art festival featured in unique public spaces, creating a solutions-based blueprint for a better world .
Project / Forward has been exploding with shattering light shards onto public walls around the world for 2 years in places like Bangladesh, Colombia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Jordan, the Philippines, Nepal, Hong Kong, Italy, Finland, Austria and USA, and now, Newtown!
The project aims to be shown in under-resourced spaces that don't usually get to see projection and moving image art. The projection spaces will be a space not usually used for cultural/art activity such as a temple, a bridge, a house, a brick wall, a monument, a laneway.
What If Artists Planned The Future?
What if artists were in charge of planning and imagining what the world would be like in the year 2049?
Project/Forward: 2049 is a free, micro, global projection art festival featured in unique public spaces, creating a solutions-based blueprint for a better world .
Project / Forward has been exploding with shattering light shards onto public walls around the world for 2 years in places like Bangladesh, Colombia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Jordan, the Philippines, Nepal, Hong Kong, Italy, Finland, Austria and USA, and now, Newtown!
The project aims to be shown in under-resourced spaces that don't usually get to see projection and moving image art. The projection spaces will be a space not usually used for cultural/art activity such as a temple, a bridge, a house, a brick wall, a monument, a laneway.
Check out our Sydney commissioned Works from 2022
Jess Harwood: "The Artist Uprising Against Coal and Gas"
Emma Varker: "SBTH"
Tamara Lee Bailey: "tubig"
Ariel Ruby: "Forbidden Fruits"
30 November, 2023
GLOBAL DAY OF CREATIVE ACTION
Creative souls from all over the world presented works: small and large, professional and amateur, provocative and subtle, as part of the global conversation about climate change.
What's this all about, then?
While people sit in rooms talking about it, artists around the world mobilised to participate in a Day of Creative Action: a visible, powerful, immediate and tangible response to the detrimental and significant effects of climate disruption on all our communities.
From 30 November, leaders will gather in Dubai for the the 28th United Nations Climate Change conference (COP28). Previously, outside of these meetings you may have seen huge creative installations or performance works: artists communicating the most vital elements of the conference in the most powerful medium imaginable.
But, not everyone sees these incredible works, is able to get to Dubai, Paris, New York or Glasgow or perhaps even has access to the internet to see the works online.
We are decentralising who gets to create artworks about climate change and the climate crisis, and include broader audiences in the conversation.
On 30 November, 2023, for 24 hours artworks will emerge around the world that are locally relevant works for their community to help inform, inspire and provoke a better understanding around climate disruption, and what we can do about it.
These artworks provide a visible, powerful, immediate and tangible response to the detrimental and significant effects of climate disruption on all our communities. When we join these forms of creative expression together, they create a huge global body of work that has power, impact and shows the diverse struggle we are all facing together.
From 30 November, leaders will gather in Dubai for the the 28th United Nations Climate Change conference (COP28). Previously, outside of these meetings you may have seen huge creative installations or performance works: artists communicating the most vital elements of the conference in the most powerful medium imaginable.
But, not everyone sees these incredible works, is able to get to Dubai, Paris, New York or Glasgow or perhaps even has access to the internet to see the works online.
We are decentralising who gets to create artworks about climate change and the climate crisis, and include broader audiences in the conversation.
On 30 November, 2023, for 24 hours artworks will emerge around the world that are locally relevant works for their community to help inform, inspire and provoke a better understanding around climate disruption, and what we can do about it.
These artworks provide a visible, powerful, immediate and tangible response to the detrimental and significant effects of climate disruption on all our communities. When we join these forms of creative expression together, they create a huge global body of work that has power, impact and shows the diverse struggle we are all facing together.
Micro Actions for Macro Punch
We know how to do this, and a just a little bit good at it.
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Global Initiatives
10
Years
2.2M+
Artists, artists, participants and online engagements
Be A Creative Change-Maker
For the price of a coffee, you can insert that ol' coin into the bubblegum machine of creative chewiness, and help a delicious bit of creativity fall into some much needed hands. Actively be a creative change-maker and help bring about the creative injections that we all want to see throughout the realm!
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