Knowing and Unknowing: The Lives of Repair

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Documents the artworks of the exhibition Repair, Australian Pavilion, 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, under the creative direction of Baracco+Wright Architects in collaboration with Linda Tegg. It shares the thinking embodied in the work and reflects on the spaces prompted by its life.

The exhibition invites you to look anew at a plant community that has been overlooked as a site only for human use, to the extent that there is only 1% now left and to reflect on the ground, what it supports, what is displaced. As presented through our premier cultural institution, La Biennale di Venezia, this exhibition will live on through seed the authors of this investigation have already started to collect and through relationships they are building with research institutes in Europe.

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Louise Wright is a co-director of Baracco + Wright Architects (B+W). She has a PhD in architecture (RMIT University) and is also a sessional lecturer in design at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. B+W believe in a wide role for architectural thinking beyond the individual building. All projects are approached with a particular and equal attention to the parts and the whole, to individual project conditions and to the discourse of architecture. Working across a diverse range of locations, from inner urban areas to sensitive rural and coastal environments, they explore how to make architecture that is generous, opportunistic and connected to a local physical environment as well as the non-physical mixed conditions of each context. They consider the potential of even very small interventions over a large scale. The work of B+W is shifting more and more towards landscape based approaches. Formerly the Deputy Dean of Landscape Architecture (2013-2015), Mauro is a member of RMIT's School of Architecture and Design executive committee and The Centre for Design Practice Research (d___ Lab) through which he leads consulting projects in partnership with industry and government bodies. Mauro is also a Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering of Milan Polytechnic, Italy. Mauro was born and educated in Italy where he practiced and taught at Turin Polytechnic and the European Institute of Design, Milan. He moved to Melbourne in 1996, where he has been an academic at RMIT since, and a director of Baracco + Wright Architects. His research explores states of integration between open and built spaces, and natural and urban environments, spanning from large territorial/urban to small site scales. Mauro's projects and writings have been widely published in books and journals (Domus, Abitare, Casabella, A+U, Transition, Architecture Australia among others), exhibited and awarded nationally and internationally, and presented at conferences and symposia. Based in Melbourne, Linda Tegg completed a Bachelor of Arts (Photography) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2002, participating in the Parsons School of Design Program in New York from 2001-02. She competed a Master of Visual Arts in 2008 and a Master of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts 2010. Tegg has exhibited across Australia, Switzerland, Japan, New York, Mexico and The Netherlands. Recent solo exhibitions include; Choir, Centre Intermondes, La Rochelle, Goat Study Part 2, Square2 City Gallery, Wellington, 2013; Coexistence, MARSO Galleria, Mexico City, Goat Study, Utopian Slumps Project Space, Melbourne, 2012; Animal Studies, Alpineum Produzentengalerie, Luzern, Unknown Animal, Echo Galeria, Mexico City, 2011; Horse Video Study, Neue Gallery, Bern, 2010; Heart Rate Project, Kings ARI, Melbourne, Heart Rate Project, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia Project Space, South Australia, 2007; Selected group exhibitions include Black BoxWhite Cube, The Arts Centre, Melbourne, Tree Line, Brisbane, 2011; Sub 12, The Substation, Worm Mountain, C3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, 2010; Self Timer / Dancer, Sutton Project Space, Enclosure, Alliance Franaise, Melbourne, 2009; Linda has been selected as the Samstag Scholar for 2014 and was the recipient of the Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship 2012; the Australia Council ArtStart grant, the Arts Victoria International Exchange grant 2011, the KPMG Art Award 2010, the Australian Postgraduate award 2009-10, the Keith and Elisabeth Mudoch Travelling Fellowship 2009, National Gallery Women's Association Postgraduate Encouragement Award, Alliance Francaise Award, Fiona Myer Award, ANZ Art Award People's Choice in 2008. Tegg received an RMIT Travel Grant and John Storey Junior Memorial Scholarship in 2001 and was named Australian Student Photographer of the Year, AIPP in 2000.