Seventh’s artistic offerings consist of eight distinct initiatives that combine, departing from the traditional model of gallery exhibitions, to arrive at a more interdisciplinary approach.
Outcomes from these initiatives are diverse, resulting in a lively calendar of exhibitions, screenings, performances, workshops, talks and events, as well as providing opportunities for creative practitioners to participate in professional development, experimentation and research. These initiatives interconnect and overlap, combining public programming and exhibition-making with research, learning, and professional development.
Seventh is moving away from the hierarchy of the exhibition program that has historically shaped the ARI model. We seek to fully transition into a space that integrates exhibitions, studios and public programming into a hybrid platform, networking artists and non-artists through projects, symposia, residencies, cross- platform collaborations and publications/broadcasts.
We believe that small organisations like Seventh have a crucial and exciting role to play in our current social, political and environmental climate. With a focus on collective action and community, we are responding to renewed movements within society to come together to make change. Following extended COVID lockdowns in Naarm, increasing environmental activism, the Black Lives Matter uprising, an ongoing cost of living and rental crisis, and increasingly expensive and privatised education, community care and collective action have become crucial to making change. Our strategic vision seeks to accommodate these movements, to make space and bring communities together through art.
Seventh’s artistic offerings consist of eight distinct initiatives that combine, departing from the traditional model of gallery exhibitions, to arrive at a more interdisciplinary approach.
Outcomes from these initiatives are diverse, resulting in a lively calendar of exhibitions, screenings, performances, workshops, talks and events, as well as providing opportunities for creative practitioners to participate in professional development, experimentation and research. These initiatives interconnect and overlap, combining public programming and exhibition-making with research, learning, and professional development.
Seventh is moving away from the hierarchy of the exhibition program that has historically shaped the ARI model. We seek to fully transition into a space that integrates exhibitions, studios and public programming into a hybrid platform, networking artists and non-artists through projects, symposia, residencies, cross- platform collaborations and publications/broadcasts.
We believe that small organisations like Seventh have a crucial and exciting role to play in our current social, political and environmental climate. With a focus on collective action and community, we are responding to renewed movements within society to come together to make change. Following extended COVID lockdowns in Naarm, increasing environmental activism, the Black Lives Matter uprising, an ongoing cost of living and rental crisis, and increasingly expensive and privatised education, community care and collective action have become crucial to making change. Our strategic vision seeks to accommodate these movements, to make space and bring communities together through art.