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How to use this resource. This resource is designed for the classroom, displayed on an interactive whiteboard or via a laptop and projector.

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  1. How to use this resource This resource is designed for the classroom, displayed on an interactive whiteboard or via a laptop and projector. Guidelines for teachers are contained within the notes section along with links to further education resources and any documents you may wish to print for your students.

  2. Welcome to the MCA Video not working? Click here

  3. Creative Guide to Contemporary Art Video not working? Click here

  4. Pre-Visit What is Contemporary Art? THINK What do you think contemporary means? What do you think art is? Let’s look at some art! Nicholas Folland The door was open... 2006

  5. Pre-Visit Performance Art Rebecca Baumann Hiromi Tango Rebecca Baumann Improvised Smoke Device 2010/2011 Hiromi Tango Hiromi Hotel – Mixed Blood 2011 Video not working? Click here Video not working? Click here

  6. Pre-Visit Video Art THINK Shaun Gladwell filmed himself doing tricks on his skateboard in slow motion. What do you think makes video art different to other types of art? Shaun Gladwell Storm Sequence 2000

  7. Pre-Visit Installation Art Some artworks change shape depending on where they are exhibited. This is called an ‘installation’. LOOK What do you think Maria Fernanda Cardoso used to make this installation? Maria Fernanda Cardoso Woven Water: Submarine Landscape I 2003 See more of her ‘animal’ sculptures here.

  8. Pre-Visit Painting? Rosalie Gascoigne cut up old road signs and rearranged them to make these artworks that are displayed like paintings.THINKAre these really paintings? Why/why not? Rosalie Gascoigne Tiger Tiger 1987 Hear curator Hannah Fink speak about the artist here.

  9. Pre-Visit Sculpture Hany Armanious made a large sculpture of part of the body. Can you guess what part it is?See how this large sculpture arrived at the MCA! Hany Armanious Fountain 2012 Video not working? Click here

  10. Pre-Visit Conceptual Art Sometimes contemporary artists don’t make the finished artwork themselves. Kerrie Poliness has left instructions so others can make her wall drawing for exhibitions. Kerrie Poliness Red Matter wall drawing #2 1994

  11. Pre-Visit Instruction Drawing

  12. Pre-Visit How was it made? See how Red Matter Wall Drawing #2 was made. Video not working? Click here

  13. Movable Sculpture Pre-Visit Gemma Smith (Left) Adaptable (dark peach/red oxide) 2008 (Right) Adaptable (mint/golden green) 2008 Gemma Smith makes paintings and sculptures that explore colour, space and shape. She calls her sculptures ‘adaptables’. LOOKWhich parts do you think might move?

  14. Movable Sculpture Pre-Visit Video not working? Click here Watch Gemma Smith moving one of her adaptables. (start at 4:30min)

  15. Pre-Visit I want to see for myself! Let’s go and visit the MCA and explore contemporary art.

  16. How was your visit? Post-Visit

  17. Post-Visit Make a word cloud! Create a word cloud based on your visit to the MCA here.

  18. Post-Visit Guess what I saw? Nicholas Folland The door was open... 2006 Maria Kozic Manster (the picture of Dorian Grey) 1986 Brown Council The One Hour Laugh 2009 Robert Owen Sunrise #3 2005 Stephen Birch Untitled 2005 REFLECT Choose an artwork you saw at the MCA and tell someone about it!

  19. Post-Visit Your exhibition RESPOND Did you make anything at the MCA? Photograph your class work and project it onto the whiteboard or create a virtual exhibition.

  20. Post-Visit Drawing without a pencil RESPONDYou are a contemporary artist! Use some unusual materials to create art. Make a drawing without using any pens or pencils. Be creative! Here is some inspiration… Pendulum Painting 2 Video not working? Click here

  21. Post-Visit Can I use that wall? You may have noticed many wall drawings at the MCA, by artists like Helen Eager and Robert Owen. Follow artist Lucas Ihlein’s instructions to make your own wall drawing.

  22. Post-Visit Or… Bridget Riley, Composition with circles 4 being painted by an MCA Art Installer in 2004 Use your interactive whiteboard to create a wall drawing. The artwork may exist for a short-time only (known as a ephemeral).

  23. Post-Visit See you soon! We look forward to your next visit at the MCA. www.mca.com.au Be creative!

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  25. Help us help you… Help us create innovative teacher resources for you and your students. Your feedback is important to us, and you can let us know what you think about this resource by completing the survey here. By completing this survey, you go into the draw to win a Volume One: MCA Collection catalogue! The winner is drawn at the end of each term and will be notified by email.

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