Space for contemplation

Space for contemplation

  • 23 Jul 2026
  • 12:00pm - 01:00pm
  • FREE
  • First Site Gallery | Storey Hall Basement, 344 Swanston St Melbourne
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In this program, Axel Garay will lead participants through a guided meditation, journalling exercise and short discussion to contemplate the ways we are 'immersed' in the world.

Reflect on the ways you are immersed with the inner and outer world, with tech platforms, communities, materials and self. There will be tea and snacks served. 

Axel Garay will facilitate three engagements as part of his solo exhibition, Intercessions at First Site Gallery. Each engagement is designed to decompress the busy mind, focus on 'being' rather than 'doing' and reflect on our relationship to 'immersion' as an idea and a practice. 

Intercessions is a part of the On-Site exhibition suite, a project showcasing the creative research of RMIT postgraduate candidates at First Site Gallery.

Image: Axel Garay, Resist In 3D, 2026 (video still, detail). Image courtesy the artist.

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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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