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She Persists

Perspectives on Women in Art & Design

Hear from writers featured in She Persists, a publication featuring 34 perspectives exploring pivotal moments in and key contributions to the field of art and design by women, whose influential works are held in the NGV Collection.

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Sound Art

The Kimberley

These sound compositions by Philip Samartzis were produced from raw material recorded during three residencies in the Kimberley region of northern Western Australia.

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Floe

Antarctica and its surrounding ocean are dominated by the presence of snow and ice, which, while responsive to local climate patterns and variations also influences global climate systems.

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Unheard Spaces

These recordings focus on the way sound permeates Venice and its attendant canals and lagoon to register an elaborate set of signifiers characterising the city.

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Gallery Playlists

Asian Art | Ambience in a Timeless Japanese Landscape

Spanning hundreds of years of Japanese sound culture, this playlist juxtaposes traditional compositions with contemporary ambient works.
 
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Australian Art | Pop Meets Avant-Garde at the End of the Century

Pop hooks, lo-fi genius and dance-floor dreams in the Australian scene.

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Collecting Comme

This playlist accompanies the 2019-2020 NGV exhibition Collecting Comme, and plays in the Gallery space. Collecting Comme celebrates the work of Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, one of the most visionary and influential fashion designers working today.

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Darren Sylvester: Carve a Future, Devour Everything, Become Something

Inspired by NGV’s 2019 exhibition Darren Sylvester: Carve a Future, Devour Everything, Become Something, this playlist celebrates Sylvester’s multidisciplinary and ever evolving practice.

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Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines

Inspired by NGV’s 2019-2020 world-first exhibition Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines, this playlist recreates the sounds of 1980s Downtown New York where both artists’ careers and lives intersected.

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Indigenous Art Collections | Contemporary Electronic & Hip Hop

Some of the most striking artists performing ethereal, experimental and bass-heavy music in the world today.
 
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International Art | Early Medieval Composers of the 9th – 12th Century

Discover sublime harmonies, ecstatic intervals and forgotten instruments in this playlist examining the Medieval period’s earliest composers.
 
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Monet's Garden

Inspired by NGV’s 2013 exhibition entitled Monet’s Garden, this playlist celebrates artist Claude Monet, the ‘father of French Impressionism’, who was inspired by his direct experiences of nature.

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Shifting Gear: Design, Invention and the Australian Car

Inspired by the 2015 NGV exhibition Shifting Gear: Design, Invention and the Australian Car, this playlist matches iconic Australian music with some of Australia’s most iconic vehicles.

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Surrealism

Immerse yourself in the sounds of the uncanny, the ominous and the beautiful with this NGV Melbourne playlist inspired by the Surrealism movement.

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Music

Sarabande from Bach’s Suite No 1 for Violoncello in the Salon Gallery Inspired by Salomon van Ruysdael's River landscape with boats Debussy’s Syrinx in the Salon Gallery Inspired by Edward Burne-Jones’s The garden of Pan The Teskey Brothers | Hold Me The State of Music The Teskey Brothers | That Bird The State of Music Bach’s Allemande from the D minor Partita No 2 in the Gallery Inspired by Meindert Hobbema’s The old oak
Audio Descriptions

Hear detailed descriptions of six artworks from the NGV Collection produced in collaboration with Description Victoria.

Each artwork is accompanied by two tracks. The first track includes the artwork description plus some factual information. The second track for each artwork is a piece of music selected to complement the work.

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