Wyndham, AUS

Curated by Common Collective in collaboration with community, [AT HOME] Wyndham centred on a public light installation on a traditional brick home in the locality of Werribee. Here, a large-scale screen acts as a beacon for the home and transmits community-sourced messages into the neighbourhood. Inside, the home was transformed into a vessel for ideas, installations and dialogues, with a program of more than 12 artists living and working locally, and a number of invited collaborators whose practices intersect with the local context. These artists individually and collectively responded to the site and the experience of home – in and beyond Wyndham.

As the fastest-growing local government area in Australia, Wyndham offers insight into the changing conditions of suburbia across Australia. With growing populations, shrinking block sizes, and new social, economic and environmental challenges, Australian suburbs have taken on a new shape in recent decades – often with bureaucracy and corporate interest as the blunt tools of development. What our suburbs become is not always up to us, but how we live within them could be. As we move within systems and navigate challenges like housing precarity and environmental degradation, we define and redefine community. Our stories evolve, and self-representation becomes a matter and means of survival. [AT HOME] Wyndham responds to this context, while translating universal experiences and proposing new ways of imagining and designing the future.