Exhibition: Collective Conscience, Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF)

HRAFF is a dynamic and vibrant national art and film festival featuring a variety of creative media aimed at raising awareness and generating debate on human rights issues in Australia.

The arts component of the Melbourne-based festival program is Collective Conscience, an exhibition that considers the recent shift in contemporary artistic practice away from individual experience towards inter-personal activity and social exchange. The artists in Collective Conscience represent, to varying degrees a re-humanising of artistic practices via an emphasis on participation, dialogue and collaboration. Through a variety of perspectives, approaches and forms, Collective Conscience explores issues of human rights, and the power of collective action.

12-30 November 2008
The Carlton Studios (upstairs)
193 Bourke St

Melbourne

Collective Conscience
curated by Andrea Bell & Romy Sedman

Artists:
Alex Martinis Roe, (Australia)
Culture Kitchen, (Australia), Taring Padi, (Indonesia), Gembel (East Timor).
Fiona Jack, (New Zealand)
Freedom Burmese Artists, (Burma)
MHUL Conversation Program, Christian Thompson, Helen Johnson (Australia)
Panther, (Australia)
PVI Collective, (Australia)
Richard Bell, (Australia)
The Long March Project: Chen Qiulin, Yang Shaobin, Jiang Zhi (China).

For more information please visit: http://www.hraff.org.au/