Make Visible
Make Visible is an ongoing, community led project developed by artist, curator, and activist Shannon Novak. The project aims to grow support for queer communities worldwide by making visible challenges and triumphs for these communities through the lens of contemporary art.
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Make Visible seeks to:
Reduce rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide in queer communities.
Create positive, meaningful, and sustained change for queer communities.
Make space for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) queer voices.
Illuminate, archive, and increase access to queer heritage.
Increase awareness and knowledge of queer communities.
Share local queer knowledge and skills.
Collaboratively research, develop, present, and evaluate new work.
Increase awareness and knowledge of the arts as a way to drive and support positive, meaningful, and sustained change for queer communities.
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This project seek to achieve its objectives through social practice.
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Novak developed this project as his contribution to The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10) in 2021 at the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
The project launched in September 2021 through a series of interventions inside the gallery and outside the gallery (satellite spaces), making visible key challenges and triumphs local (Queensland) LGBTQI+ communities face.
Chapters
Make Visible is realised through project chapters around the world. Project chapters developed to date are listed below.
Make Visible: New York
New York, USA, 2023 (ongoing)
Make Visible: Te Whanganui-a-Tara
Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, New Zealand, 2022 (ongoing)
Key supporter: Wellington City Council
Make Visible: Taranaki
Taranaki, New Zealand, 2022 (ongoing)
Key supporter: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery | Len Lye Centre
Make Visible: Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2021 (ongoing)
Key supporter: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA)