Open House Melbourne 2022

As part of Open House Melbourne, audiences will be granted unique access to explore the Grainger Museum's architecture and themes through a new audio-visual experience.

Responding to Percy Grainger’s experimental practice, Interactive Composition and Animation students at the University of Melbourne are collaborating to create an immersive multimedia installation. Temporarily emptied of physical collections in order to heighten attention to the Heritage-Listed architecture, the museum becomes a canvas for visual and sonic works projected throughout the museum’s interior. The experience will showcase student creative engagement and allow audience interaction with the Grainger in an unconventional format, ensuring constant activation of the museum and its collections.

This project centres experience design and multimedia creation, highlighting the museum's currently unseen collection and building a temporary, site-specific exploration. The initiative upholds a takeover strategy by young students—future professionals—through visual and sonic moves to freedom and experimentation, unbuilding and rebuilding Percy Grainger’s legacy.