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Next Wave

Jesse Paris-Jourdan

<p>As part of the New Student Precinct Project, artist development platform Next Wave has been curating public art and programs at the Parkville campus. Through a series of installations, participatory programming and mentorship opportunities, the project seeks to amplify marginal voices, disrupt historical narratives and open the University’s pedagogy. Embracing disruption, as well as the […]</p>

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As part of the New Student Precinct Project, artist development platform Next Wave has been curating public art and programs at the Parkville campus. Through a series of installations, participatory programming and mentorship opportunities, the project seeks to amplify marginal voices, disrupt historical narratives and open the University’s pedagogy. Embracing disruption, as well as the transitional, forgotten and peripheral, Next Wave programming provides an opportunity for innovative thinking around the past, present and future of the site, as well as the way we live, think and learn; as individuals and a community. The following are excerpts from Next Wave’s pilot arts writing mentorship program, Everyone is an arts writer.

Published: 9/10/2018 5:12 PM 3376 views