James Carey

My creative practice involves research and durational intervention within decommissioned buildings and gallery spaces. Using immediate material, immersive and inhabitable situations are constructed. Preconceived notions of familiarity are ruptured in order to create new proposals for interiorities, sites and situations.

The methodology is to work site responsively, allowing particular qualities and conditions to reveal themselves, which have potential for specific outcomes. Sites are inhabited through a slow material engagement, and then reconstructed through occupation, maintenance, and certain activities. It is a material, temporal and spatial practice, and is also connected to the exploratory process of drawing.

The practice foregrounds duration, an attentiveness of being 'in time', and is intuitive in nature. Being attentive to time allows the practice to open up beyond contemporary creative practice – an opening up to something ‘other’. It considers time as method, time as content, and time as material.

In employing these methodologies, the ‘other’ becomes matter’s capacity for being otherwise; a potential for becoming/unbecoming. Attentiveness 'in time' is practicing openness and living outside preconceptions, which ...

RMIT University, School of Architecture & Design Melbourne 2009 – current, PhD Candidate

RMIT University, Melbourne 2001-2005, Bachelor of Design (Interior Design) Honours

Monash University, Melbourne 1996-1999, Bachelor of Arts (Chinese)

to wonder // to wander in collaboration with Megan Cope and the Culpra Milli Aboriginal Corporation, Mildura Arts Centre, 2016

wall work[ing] 7 Kings A.R.I. Gallery, Melbourne 2015

beginning in incompleteness: works in formation RMIT Project Space, Melbourne 2015

rendered use[less]ness [or] the constellating of marrickville as part of Useless, The Corner Cooperative, Sydney, 2014

the lightness of one and three doors as part of Situation, RMIT Design Hub 2014

Thisness Bus Projects Melbourne 2014

89964 seconds [paces] of drawing [walking] as part of SafARI Wellington Street Projects, Sydney 2014

fantasy fees apply as part of Mannorisms Melbourne 2013

domestic occupation 1 as part of CSI Flinders Street 2012

Place of Assembly as part of the Melbourne Festival, Schoolhouse Studios 2012

A Look Back, Tinning Street Gallery, Melbourne 2012

In the Pines Fracture Gallery, Melbourne December 2011

Sculpturescape as part of The Lorne Sculpture Show, Lorne 2011

nothing obvious is sought Tinning Street Gallery, Melbourne 2011

Google Me This Fitzroy Library Artspace 2011

High Tea Bundoora Homestead December 2010 – February 2011

domesti[city] White Street Projects, Frankston 2010

a taming Kings A....