PROJECT / FORWARD
The initiative reimagines public spaces as a temporary canvas for the community, transforming walls, windows, temples, tiles, sidewalks and signs into screening surfaces for futuristic visions. All of the moving image content – whether it be video art, animation, digital storytelling, visual and soundscapes - they project how artists think the future could and should be envisioned.
The Audience – either proactively attending or fortunate passers-by, view a 30min–1 hour video package which is a series of curated works ranging from 10 seconds–3 mins long. These works are creative responses by artists from diverse backgrounds and region, all generating new blueprints on what our future could look like, and designed to engage and captivate audiences, and provide visual possibilities for new ways forward.
This project was originally seeded and evolved by Kat Roma Greer, Brian Luque Marcos and Rhiannon Hopley.
3 global events
117 artists
22 Countries
500K eyeballs
Artistic Innovation:
Showcase experimental and new media art forms in public spaces, making them accessible to a broader audience.
Community Revitalisation:
: Activate unexpected or underutilised spaces, fostering a sense of belonging and ownership amongst community members, and creating compelling new ideas for how to begin planning a better future.
Global Engagement:
Involve artists and audiences from various countries, promoting cultural exchange and diverse perspectives.
Building Blueprints:
All content and intention behind the initiative is focused on solutions-focused and blue-skies futurism, and building a visual map of better futures and ways of being for all our communities.
Artists are now in charge.
You've been called up into an exclusive think-tank of creative thinkers and charged with designing the world as it will be in the future.
Everyone knows artists can imagine better ideas, futures, solutions and possibilities where most can't envision them. Your job is to make these amazing possibilities and visions come to life.
How will people live? What will their values be? What will the environment look like? What do people do? What will be important? What would have worked?
You are writing the plan and creating the script, the images and the narrative for the future. Building on the past, on the data we have, on those who went before us to be brave enough to envision a different, better world – what will you create? This is not a moment to predict doom and post-apocalyptic ideas. It is a chance to build a better tomorrow, forging possibilities and alternatives, where no one believes there are any.
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Kat Roma GreerArtistic Director, Micro Galleries
Creative Producer, Project / Forward
Kat is a curator of public art interventions and community engagements; guerrilla creative business consultant for women. -
Brian Luque-MarcosArtistic Director, Project / ForwardBrian, based in Graz, is a spatial designer with special interest in modern production techniques. His works tend to use techniques such as 3D Printing, Laser Cutting and CNC drilling to create materialised pieces that can be described as art, but also functional parts and useful objects for serial production.
11-13 December, 2020
The flagship event included 45 artworks screened across eleven featured locations:
Amman, Jordan; Sydney, Australia; Central Java, Indonesia; Patan, Nepal; Padua, Italy; Graz, Austria; Bogota, Colombia; Texas, USA; Nairoibu, Kenya; Chachapayos, Peru; Barcelona, Spain.
This project was supported by The Ministry of Culture, Peru, and Jason Stephenson.
11-13 December, 2022
This project had a second iteration in 2022 as part of the Inner West Fest in Sydney, supported by the Inner West Council which also included four new local, commissioned works.
17-18 December, 2021
The event included 40 artworks from 25 countries screened across ten featured locations: Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nepal, Colombia, Italy, Finland, Australia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Cambodia.
17 February + Dates to be announced, 2025
Launched on 17 February, 2024 in Chiang Mai across seven locations as part of The Good Lab initiative. This iteration is featuring 32 artists, with 40 artworks from 25 countries.