WORLDING presents the works of twelve national and international contemporary artists that speak to a mobile understanding of how artists partake in the designing, building, and organising of a personal world through their practice. Under the curation of Platform Arts’ Dr Amber Smith, the ‘worlding’ practices proposed in this exhibition reflect how artists un/build worlds and re/imagine the world as-it-is, with consideration to alternate realities, memory fields, truth-telling, and material-semiotic worlds. The mediums span video and digital media as well as object-based and archival practices, foregrounding First Nations and Diasporic perspectives, which together examine how everyday objects and technologies infiltrate artistic practice by co-opting and subverting these materialities. “By confronting our own attempts to world-build, we gain insight into the purpose of worlding being about identity and creating an environment that signals back to us—sometimes unconsciously—our identity and essentials like security and self-actualisation. We like to know that our immediate world meets our needs and desires.” — Amber Smith, Curator With thanks to the Estates of Katthy Cavaliere, Stano Filko, and Alex Rizkalla, through the AGNSW Artist Archives. This project has been supported by a City of Greater Geelong Community Grant.