Conversation Piece
frontyard projects
Over four days at the 2017 Hobiennale the team behind frontyard finished a book project about conversations in Hobart, inspired by the dialogues that occur at their home-base in Marrickville, Sydney. Appropriately, from a self-described ‘Not-Only-Artist-Run-Initiative’, the topic of ‘conversations’ is hard to pin down to one discipline. Instead frontyard assembles photos, texts and design elements that consider place, symbolism (digital and organic) and our temporal space. On page 18 an image reads ‘Start a Looping Narrative, Start Anywhere’ and following that we learn about Purslane seeds and a migration story, an interview with Ruth Mollison of St Johns Community Orchard and pages of chat in Slack (a real-time messaging program). ‘Conversation Piece’ is self-conscious about the ubiquity and power of story telling.
