LIMINAL ENCOUNTERS

An exhibition by the next generation of curators in response to the Michael Buxton Collection.

Liminal Encounters is the outcome of Curating Art in Practice, a graduate subject in the Master of Art Curatorship program at the University of Melbourne.  

Students have worked in teams to curate four distinct displays – Hard Liquid, The Fleeting Dream, Luminance and All the Clocks Have Stopped – that bring new perspectives to the Michael Buxton Collection. Each project follows its own enquiry, yet all are threaded by the theme of liminality – a state of transition, ambiguity and the in-between.  

Through their curatorial lens, the students reveal tensions that flicker between opposites: shadows and luminescence, intimacy and distance, dreams and nightmares, presence and absence.  

The Curating Art in Practice subject is run in collaboration between the University of Melbourne’s Museums and Collections department and the Faculty of Arts.