VACANT ASSEMBLY

Reimagining grassroots art & culture as FUNDAMENTAL TO our collective wellbeing

6.5

Years in Operation

307

Venue Activations

41

Artists in Residence

32

Solo/Group Projects

1408

Artists Participated

2

Offsite Activations

The real stuff of life is found in making time and space to assemble, connect and share.

Push

Let’s

OFF TOWARDS THE UNKNOWN

To reshape our world, we need the freedom and curiosity to push boundaries and openly experiment.

Two women on a ladder installing black timber cladding on a wall in Vacant Assemblyon

Let’s
CIRCLE BACK TO

Play

Let’s leave our expectations behind and get lost in states of play.

A young girl holding a pink fluorescent light bulb in the dark and moving it around to make shadows on a wall where a mobile artwork is hanging

Let’s dream up
NEW ways to

thrive

Let’s map out how grassroots arts, the built environment, commercial interests and well-being can intersect and thrive.

One women and two men are laughing together at a Vacant Assembly art exhibition. They are holding felons beers and the women is looking towards the camera.

vacant assembly is a voice for community,
curiosity and creativity.
we deliberately disrupt and dismantle frameworks of capital and hierarchy, making space for authentic,
sustainable collective expression

EXPLOre more at VACANT ASSEMBLY

ART ADjacent

3 guests, one theme, and a conversation that connects art + real life.
Launch Date: 26th July, 1.30-2.30pm, $10 tix.

GEt Your Hands Dirty

Jump on our volunteer list... you choose what suits. You may end up building a project, burning something or getting nerdy with us.

A volunteers in a black/white check shirt is holding a large propane torch and is charring a piece of timber for renovations at Vacant Assembly. There is a large pile of timber to be charred in the background of photo.

ASsemble Art Bank

Subscribe, build your community and get some perks on the side.

A male and female are laying on a bed, that is part of an interactive installation at Vacant Assembly. Their young daughter is playing next the bed and everyone is laughing

Vacant Assembly acknowledges the Turrbal and Jagera peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters where we connect, play and thrive. We honour and take inspiration from the First People’s deep knowledge of environment, arts, culture, and storytelling, and pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.

Always was and always will be Aboriginal land – sovereignty never ceded.

PUSH · PLAY · THRIVE

PUSH · PLAY · THRIVE