KINGS Artist Run: the antidote to exhaustion is not rest, it’s wholeheartedness

21/10/2025 - 21/10/2025 1pm - 4pm

Arts Lab, Level 1, Arts & Cultural Building, (Building 159) University of Melbourne

UMSU Gallery

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WHEN: Tuesday 21st October 1-4pm
WHERE: Arts Lab, Level 1 Building 159 & Kings Ari, North Melbourne
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Taking its title from David Whyte’s Crossing the Unknown Sea, this is a two-part workshop jointly hosted between George Paton Gallery and KINGS Artist-Run exploring the dynamics of productivity and labour, to find together our rhythms of constructive rest 

1 - 2.30pm at George Paton Gallery

In an era that is decorated with fatigue and burnout, how do we survive? The workshop will begin in the Arts Lab at George Paton Gallery where we will utilise collaborative print-making as a mode of exploring collective labour and what it means to hold together. Participants will be guided through the creation of their very own print, which we will all combine together to develop artist books for one another.

2.30 - 3pm walk to Queen Victoria Markets

After making our artist books, we will take a walk from George Paton Gallery to the Queen Victoria Markets to purchase and assemble a communal afternoon tea, taking a moment to pause and embrace what nourishes us.

3 - 4pm at KINGS Artist-Run

To conclude the workshop will be a communal reading circle of Tom Melick’s A Little History of Fatigue at KINGS Artist-Run over afternoon tea. Be as you need with your body. Join in the reading or simply take a moment to stop and listen. Whatever it is that you do, embrace it wholeheartedly.

Bio:

KINGS Artist-Run is a contemporary arts organisation supporting a range of artists, writers and performers in the early stages of their careers. In 2003, KINGS was established to exhibit experimental video work on King St. in Naarm, and continues to be communally driven by a volunteer collective of artists, writers, curators and academics. Since then, our program has evolved to encompass a range of distinct experimental performances, publishing initiatives, curatorial outcomes, and exhibitions.

In early 2020, KINGS vacated our multi-level premises in Melbourne’s CBD. The organisation operated a mobile model for the following year commissioning writing, digital works, and public projects. KINGS established a new wheelchair-accessible gallery space in West Melbourne which opened to the public in May 2021.

Facilitators: 

Sebastian Kainey

Bea Rubio-Gabriel