The Mechanics Institute

Biennial lab artist

Biennial Lab Project: Trade School

The Mechanics Institute brings together the core elements of Dr. Sanné Mestrom and Jamie Hall’s individual practices by addressing three key themes:

1. An interrogation into the process of art-making

2. Questioning notions of authorship

3. Testing notions of value. 

TMI’s collaborations – which to date have included artists, peers and interdisciplinary academics across Melbourne’s RMIT, Monash and VCA universities – take the form of creative projects, reading groups, workshops, conversations, writings & diagrams, in-situ studio & gallery critiques and regional & inter-state ‘art camps’