SMART Project Space Information

SMART Project Space (SPS) was established in 1994 as a site for cross platform cultural practice. SPS supports artists by providing contexts to define cultural production, while at the same time, stimulating new relationships between artists and audiences. Housed in a former Pathological Anatomical Laboratory, SPS has developed different platforms of artistic production and creative research - from exhibition space, to cinema, and from artists’ studios to café/ restaurant - drawing together a wide range of approaches from the most interesting emerging international artists. SPS encourages practices that transcend reflexive observation by fostering artistic experimentation, questioning, and discovery in an active environment. SPS posits the political nature of artistic activity, and intends to be an institution that is part community facility, part laboratory, and part centre for academic inquiry. In this sense, SPS challenges the established exhibition function of institutional contemporary art spaces. SPS endeavours to embrace the spectrum of possibilities and to create a platform that is pivotal in asserting the role of young artists within contemporary life.