Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Friday 19 September
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
There’s a support group for everything these days, from fear of flying to overeating.
Do you ever feel like you don’t know anything … that there are all kinds of important (and not so important) fragments of information you’re missing out on? Do you have a niggling feeling that you don’t even know what you don’t know?
Well, there’s a support group for you, too: Ignoramus Anonymous – and we’re all eligible for membership.
Join others who don’t know anything, and you might solve your curly questions. Along the way, you’ll probably discover you know a lot more than you thought you did – as you realise you know the answers to other people’s head-scratchers.
This is a democracy of knowledge; a kind of IRL (in real life) Wikipedia, where knowledge is not top-down, but a round-circle discussion. Where everyone is invited to contribute if they have something to add, but no one need fear not having the answers.
Get off the internet, away from the keyboard, and – just for a while – abandon Google as the source of all knowledge. Turn to the person next to you for answers, and you might just be surprised.
Ignoramus Anonymous is the safe space to ask the questions that stump us – a place designed for revelling in what we don’t know (and don’t know that we don’t know). And an invitation to engage with each other, in a physical space. Just for a change.
Hosted by Malcolm Whittaker.
All sessions
There are six Ignoramus Anonymous sessions in total:
Wednesday 17 September, 5.30pm
Thursday 18 September, 12.30pm
Thursday 18 September, 6.30pm
Friday 19 September, 5.30pm
Saturday 20 September, 3.30pm
Saturday 20 September, 5.30pm
Featuring
Malcolm Whittaker
Malcolm Whittaker is a young man from Sydney who works as an interdisciplinary artist, writer, researcher and performer. He does this in solo pursuits, as a member of performance collective Team MESS and in collaborations with other artists and non-artists.
His work is made and executed through the engagement of participants and collaborators in the framing of ‘play spaces’ which adopt the conventions, rituals and spectacles of the everyday.
Malcolm’s work has taken forms ranging from theatre and gallery situations to site-specific and public interventions to performance lectures, film shoots, phone calls, support groups, walks in the park, letters in the mail and the borrowing of books from the library.
Malcolm has made and presented work across Australia, as well as in the UK and Finland. As an inaugural recipient of the Australia Council Early Career Residency grant he was recently the first ever artist- in-residence at the State Library NSW. Selected presentations of work in 2014 include Ignoramus Anonymous at State Library NSW, Waverley Council Library, the ‘Festival of Live Art’ at Arts House (Melbourne) and the ‘Sonic Social’ Performance Space program at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney); My Best Friend with Performance Space in Sydney with Field Theory in Melbourne and at Junction Arts Festival in Launceston; Jumping the Shark Fantastic at Campbelltown Arts Centre and BINGO Unit with Team MESS and Country Arts South Australia.
Malcolm is also an MA candidate and part-time lecturer at the University of Wollongong’s School of Creative Arts.