RMIT Partnership Exhibition - Convergence: A Spatial Negotiation
28 May–14 Jun 2025
Convergence: A Spatial Negotiation showcases a collaborative installation by RMIT Masters students, weaving multidimensional works into a dynamic, interconnected web. Exploring rhizomic and non-hierarchical connections between the artists and their diverse cultural contexts, this exhibition is a series of experiments that spaces between the individual and the collective.
Through painting, photography and collage, works on the wall create meaning out of chaos, evoking both resonance and contrast around themes of nature, urban life, and displacement. Meanwhile object and installation-based artists explore conceptual and spatial linkages weaving together individual identities to negotiate a space of collectivity.
Special Thanks to Nikki Lam, RMIT Lecturer and lead facilitator for the exhibition.
And a massive congratulations to all the students involved:
Creative Producers:
Effye Chen (she/her)
Jaeeun Jang (she/her)
Liangwen Qin (she/her)
Matthew Min
Stella Wadeson (she/her)
Wenen Xiao (Selena) (she/her)
Zhirui Li (Cicy) (she/her)
Artists:
Amol Madhu (he/him)
Asha Sym (she/her)
Holly Goodridge (she/her)
Jiayi Liu (Liu) (she/her)
JoyJia (she/her)
Kay Are (she/they)
Leigh Woodburgess
Maryam Attarbashi (she/her)
Noah Bridger (he/him)
Olivia Lin (she/her)
Sharon Lesley (she/her)
Taofeng (he/him)
Woo Hyun Kang (she/her)
Xinshuo Zhuo (he/him)
Yelin Lee (she/her)
Yiming Wang (he/him)
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BLINDSIDE has partnered with RMIT University to offer Pathways – an artist-led program that sits as part of the syllabus as an option for the RMIT Masters Suite cohort, including Master of Fine Art, Photography, Public Space and Arts Management.
The pathways program design and assessment structure offers participating students across all specialisations a cross-disciplinary experience of making art work, writing and curating at a professional level. The outcome from this program includes an exhibition taking place at Blindside. Working closely within the context of the Artist Run Initiative (ARI), participants expand their understanding of histories, contexts, critiques and possibilities mapped out by the network of ARIs in Melbourne and beyond.
Work Integrated Learning (WIL) is an educational approach that uses relevant work-based experiences to allow students to integrate theory with the meaningful practice of work as an intentional and assessed component of the curriculum. We are excited to instate this project as a way of formalising the symbiotic relationship between Art Schools and ARI's.
VART 3739 Industry Partnered Studio builds real-world professional experience, industry knowledge and creative potentials. This course is delivered by Nikki Lam, artist-curator, based in Narrm. Born in Hong Kong, Nikki’s practice deals with the complexity of migration, diaspora and subjective/collective histories, often through poetry, translation, fragmentation, destruction and re-generation.
Convergence: A Spatial Negotiation explores collective creativity, where personal narratives intertwine to form a living, breathing whole.
Created by 23 creative practitioners from RMIT Masters programs, this is a crowded web of rhizome-like visual narratives. Convergence entangles and weaves vibrant mediums that seamlessly span multi-dimensional space. Trace your own path across this living map of stories and ideas.
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BLINDSIDE has partnered with RMIT University to offer Pathways – an artist-led program that sits as part of the syllabus as an option for the RMIT Masters Suite cohort, including Master of Fine Art, Photography, Public Space and Arts Management.
The pathways program design and assessment structure offers participating students across all specialisations a cross-disciplinary experience of making art work, writing and curating at a professional level. The outcome from this program includes an exhibition taking place at Blindside. Working closely within the context of the Artist Run Initiative (ARI), participants expand their understanding of histories, contexts, critiques and possibilities mapped out by the network of ARIs in Melbourne and beyond.
Work Integrated Learning (WIL) is an educational approach that uses relevant work-based experiences to allow students to integrate theory with the meaningful practice of work as an intentional and assessed component of the curriculum.We are excited to instate this project as a way of formalising the symbiotic relationship between Art Schools and ARI's.
VART 3739 Industry Partnered Studio builds real-world professional experience, industry knowledge and creative potentials. This course is delivered by Nikki Lam, artist-curator, based in Narrm. Born in Hong Kong, Nikki’s practice deals with the complexity of migration, diaspora and subjective/collective histories, often through poetry, translation, fragmentation, destruction and re-generation.
This program takes place on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded - this land is stolen land. We pay respects to Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, to the Elders from other communities and to any other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who might encounter or participate in the program.
Nikki Lam’s practice explores the complexity of belonging through the exploration of self, memory and space. Working primarily with video, performance, text and installation, she is interested in exploring the translations of hybrid identities, often through studies of rituals, language and representations. Born in Hong Kong (1988), Nikki's work has been shown at Underbelly Arts Festival, SafARI, Firstdraft, BUS Projects, The Ferry Gallery (Bangkok, Thailand), Galleria Marcollini (Forli, Italy), and toured around the world with Over View International Festival of Video Art. Her most recent curatorial projects include Frames of Seeing (2017) at Nite Art, Flygirl by Caroline Garcia (2017), Screen as a Room (2016) at THE SUBSTATION and Channels Festival (2015).