RMIT Culture

RMIT Culture

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RMIT Culture connects the University’s cultural spaces and collections with the community, fostering creative engagement and supporting learning and research through programs, exhibitions, events and opportunities.

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Substantial and Significant by Mei Wah Williams

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 20 May 2025 - 13 Jun 2025

Mei Wah Williams is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Naarm, Melbourne. William’s creative practice aims to bring attention to systems perpetuating gendered power imbalances, underpinning ecological harm and social issues such as violence against women.

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Anarchy in the AI by Brent Leideritz

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 20 May 2025 - 13 Jun 2025

In Anarchy in the AI Leideritz interrogates identity, nostalgia, and memory, producing works that raise questions about how identity is formed and expressed.

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Of here by Michelle Stewart, Susan Buchanan, Deborah Fisher

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 20 May 2025 - 13 Jun 2025

Of here - Taungurung forest, Birrarung, Naarm streets

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Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 04 Jun 2025 - 15 Jun 2025

Watch lasers bounce off The Capitol's iconic ceiling, transforming the auditorium into a kinetic sculpture of light.

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Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 05 Jun 2025 - 16 Aug 2025

Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits introduces us to Alan Adler (1932 – 2024), who while little known, was the oldest and longest serving photobooth technician in the world.

Two colour photobooth images of a man in glasses.

Curatorial Tour with Catlin Langford and Metro Auto Photo

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 07 Jun 2025

Join co-curators Catlin Langford and Metro Auto Photo’s Jessie Norman and Christopher Sutherland for a tour of exhibition Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits.

Exhibitions

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Substantial and Significant by Mei Wah Williams

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 20 May 2025 - 13 Jun 2025

Mei Wah Williams is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Naarm, Melbourne. William’s creative practice aims to bring attention to systems perpetuating gendered power imbalances, underpinning ecological harm and social issues such as violence against women.

bleideritz-reference-image.jpg

Anarchy in the AI by Brent Leideritz

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 20 May 2025 - 13 Jun 2025

In Anarchy in the AI Leideritz interrogates identity, nostalgia, and memory, producing works that raise questions about how identity is formed and expressed.

df-2025-image.jpg

Of here by Michelle Stewart, Susan Buchanan, Deborah Fisher

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 20 May 2025 - 13 Jun 2025

Of here - Taungurung forest, Birrarung, Naarm streets

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Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 05 Jun 2025 - 16 Aug 2025

Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits introduces us to Alan Adler (1932 – 2024), who while little known, was the oldest and longest serving photobooth technician in the world.

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tên tôi (my name): On-Site with Nguyễn Ngọc Thảo

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 15 Jul 2025 - 08 Aug 2025

Names can connect us and embody our stories. tên tôi (my name) is a community-driven project that embraces and celebrates ethnic names through bead-making workshops and participatory installations.

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The Mourning After

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 24 Jul 2025 - 20 Sep 2025

The Mourning After seeks to explore how we can connect, enhance kinship and create hope in response to the overwhelming sense of permacrisis we face in our daily lives. It seeks to uncover and make sense of different mourning rituals and practices, to form a constellation of grieving moments.

Talks

Two colour photobooth images of a man in glasses.

Curatorial Tour with Catlin Langford and Metro Auto Photo

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 07 Jun 2025

Join co-curators Catlin Langford and Metro Auto Photo’s Jessie Norman and Christopher Sutherland for a tour of exhibition Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits.

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Urban Playground: Beyond Consumption

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 11 Jun 2025
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

Hear a free, one-of-a-kind public talk from creative force Woopsyang, the acclaimed South Korean artist behind 'Space-Out Competition', and awaken non-consumptive ways to use the city as your playground.

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Floor Talk with Mark Holsworth, Julie Mac and Carrie Kennedy, Ben Morieson and Osker Morieson

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 28 Jun 2025

Join the artists and exhibitors in conversation with Auto-Photo curator Catlin Langford.

Vintage illustrated poster about domestic violence by Carol Wilson

Melbourne Rare Books Week 2025: Carole Wilson's Archive of Political Posters

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 29 Jul 2025

Join us during Melbourne Rare Book Week 2025 for a collection viewing of Carole Wilson's collection of political posters.

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Floor Talk with Kyle Archie Knight, Ruth O’Leary and Katherine Griffiths

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 14 Aug 2025

Join exhibiting artists in conversation with Auto-Photo curator Catlin Langford.

Screenings

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NAIDOC Week Screening - Wash My Soul in the River’s Flow

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 08 Jul 2025

NAIDOC Week 2025 - The Next Generation: Strength, Vision, Legacy

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Amélie (2001) at The Capitol

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 30 Jul 2025

Celebrating the photobooth as a popular character in cinema, RMIT Culture presents beloved French film Amélie (2001) as part of the RMIT Gallery’s exhibition Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits.

Performances

Workshops

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Photobooth Self-Portraits Workshop (Ages 5-12)

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 10 Jul 2025

Join us for a photobooth self-portrait workshop inspired by Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits (ages 5-12).

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Photobooth Self-Portraits Workshop (Ages 13 – 17)

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 11 Jul 2025

Join us for a photobooth self-portrait workshop inspired by Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits (ages 13-17).

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Working with Photobooths: A Metro Auto Photo Workshop

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 23 Jul 2025

Join Christopher Sutherland and Jessie Norman of Metro Auto Photo as they discuss their wider practice restoring and running photobooths across Melbourne, and will demonstrate how they work with these ageing, and at times, tricky machines.

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Galleries

Discover our gallery spaces, exhibitions and public programs.

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Collections

Explore our cultural collections, including art, design and screen research.

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Opportunities

Learn about our opportunities, from grants to residencies and more.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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