Due to popular demand, MPavilion?s February 2018 program of free cultural and design events, presented under the pavilion designed by renowned international architects Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of OMA, has been extended to 11 February 2018. Concluding MPavilion?s 2017?18 season on Sunday 11 February is a special film screening of Rem Koolhaas: A kind of architect, an engaging portrait of MPavilion?s visionary architect, about which Rem says, ?It?s the only film about me I have ever liked.?
To conclude this season?s rich array of free talks, workshops, performances and other happenings, the final weeks of this year?s MPavilion program feature the following just-announced events:
· MPavilion?s inaugural Regional Program collaboration with Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) concludes with two special events featuring Sydney-based artist Keg de Souza on Sunday 4 February at MPavilion and Tuesday 6 February in Shepparton. Engaging with local communities through the Regional Program, Keg de Souza has created an alternative map of the Shepparton area revealing personal narratives that are part of the layered food culture in the region; the long history of and the continuing indigenous food culture of the area; and various waves of immigration surrounding the industrialised agriculture that the region is famous for.
· An extra-special MTalks on Monday 5 February (6?7pm) looking at MPavilion: Behind the scenes, featuring representatives from construction and landscape partners Kane Constructions, Tract and Arup. Rounding off the evening is Sonic Systems Laboratory, a robotic percussion MMusic performance by innovative Australian sound artist Robbie Avenaim joined by a special guest line-up. · Movement and contemplation feature in this season?s final weeks, with contemporary yoga with renowned contemporary dance company Chunky Move on the mornings of Tuesday 30 January and Tuesday 6 February (7.30?8.15am); the final session of Quiet morning meditation with A?SPACE on Wednesday 7 February (7.15?8am); plus a brand new addition to the program, Thai Fit on the morning of Thursday 8 February, (7.15?8.15am), providing an introduction to an original new ?dancercise? that borrows from Thai traditional dance and martial arts.
· Sibling Architecture?s popular event series Designing the age-friendly city continues into the new year on Thursday 8 February (12?4pm) with the MMeets entitled Sound of Dementia, a soundscape installation presented by Arup and BLOXAS Architects, designed to explore the sensory experience of people living with dementia, reimagining how we might shape spaces for dementia sufferers through empathetic, experimental design.
· On Friday 9 February (6?8pm), join City of Melbourne director of city design and projects Rob Adams, Melbourne University professor of architecture?,? urban design Kim Dovey, and landscape architect and urban designer Ron Jones as they launch their new book, Urban Choreography: Central Melbourne, 1985? (Melbourne Universi...