About
The Spectrum Project Space Mission
Opening Night of White Monkey Holding Peach by Sally Stewart, August 2007
Spectrum Project Space is a continuing initiative of the School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University, Perth.
Since its inception in 2001, Spectrum Project Space has grown to become one of Perth's most important venues for emerging artists. Spectrum is a flexible exhibition and performance space with a vision to participate with the city's diverse arts communities and to engage publicly in the process of developing creativity.
With an educational perspective, Spectrum attempts to reveal a range of reflective processes that underpin creative practice in all its forms. Systematic and intuitive approaches to art making both have their value but it is often the by-products of these processes that are the most interesting, yet rarely exhibited.
Spectrum both promotes and celebrates this kind of invention, experimentation and intuition irrespective of its outcome and contributes therefore to our understanding and appreciation of contemporary art both locally and globally.
Events held here have expanded to represent the broad range of activities and courses within the School, such as performances, electronic media, installations, visual arts exhibitions, experimental theatre productions, symposia, new music events and presentations of ethnic cultural events.We also collaborate regularly with institutions and events such as Kulcha, International Arts Space Kellerberrin Australia (IASKA), the Totally Huge New Music Festival and Biennial of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP).
Our priorities are to support and facilitate projects proposed by staff and students of SCA and WAAPA, as well as artists in residence and collaborators. Beyond this Spectrum also invites applications for its exhibition program and billboard projects from individuals and groups who have the interest to engage with our multi-disciplinary philosophy.
Spectrum Project Space
School of Communications and Arts @ ECU