Lismore Encore

WOHA Futures: Richard Hassell, Darren Chen, Juan Pring (Singapore); Moon Hoon (Seoul); Virginia San Fratello (San Francisco Bay Area); Lee Yang Yang with Amanda Lau and Edmund Limadinata (Perth); Oskar Johanson and Sophie Canaris (Sydney); Brandon Pais (Sydney); Kate Stroud of Stroud de’ Signs (Lismore); Chas Glover (Lismore)

Curated by Sandra Kaji-O’Grady and Kezia Geddes

Lismore Encore is an exhibition of fictional futures for Lismore in which creative minds imagine new modes of occupation for our flood-prone CBD. It provides ideas for Lismore by esteemed architects, as well as by Lismore-based artists who have embodied knowledge and experience of the flood, all responding to a brief to design for Lismore's future. The brief asked contributors to imagine Lismore into the future, outside of the politics of today. It asked participants to posit ways of re-occupying the existing CBD that not only deal with regularflooding, but envisage what sort of governance, ownership, economies, and technologies enable these new ways of occupying. 

The project is intended to create a forum for ideas, be they practical or so ambitious they might be difficult or even impossible to apply in the current climate. It offers for ingenuity at all scales, from the small intervention to the vast re-imagining. 

Lismore Regional Gallery is a creative initiative of Lismore City Council, and the pop-up space has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its art funding and advisory body.