I get it, you Moved to Melbourne is an Adelaide Fringe 2020 exhibition scrutinising Adelaide’s brain drain.
Presenting an idiosyncratic assemblage of visual art, video, creative writing and historical archives, the exhibition considers the forces behind people pursuing a new life in Melbourne, leaving Adelaide and never looking back. Is the grass really greener on the other side?
‘Don’t ignore this well curated collection’ – Chuck More Reviews About
Featuring John Frith, Jenny Allnut, Grace Harper, Julia Derwas, Chealsea Birrane, Alexandra Dobson, Will Preece, Amalia Krueger, Abbey Witcombe and Angus Hamra.
With special thanks to Jeffrey Frith, University of Melbourne Archives, State Library of South Australia, National Library of Australia, History Trust of South Australia and the Lion Hotel.
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Verse Mag. Interview: Tahney Fosdike on Adelaide’s brain drain and Fringe exhibition ‘I get it, you moved to Melbourne’ Verse spoke with Adelaide-bred, Melbourne-fled curator Tahney Fosdike about their upcoming Fringe exhibition I get it, you moved to Melbourne. Describing the exhibition as “contemplative, fun, non-linear”, Tahney says the exhibition examines tensions triggering city abandonment through an idiosyncratic assemblage of visual art, video, creative writing and historical archives.
Festival City, Radio Adelaide, Interview 25 February 2020
City Mag: Fringe shows in strange places: Not content with just one venue, “Adelaide-bred, Melbourne-fled” curator Tahney Fosdike presents this show at both the tunnels at the Lion Hotel in North Adelaide and the old chapel at the Migration Museum. It’s labelled a “pop-up social museum” in which the pair satirise tensions triggering social abandonment through the semi-fictional stories of ex-Adelaideans, visual art and more.
On the Record: Fringe for free: The 10 best Adelaide Fringe events that cost absolutely nothing: “I think I’ll to move to Melbourne after uni” is a phrase most young people will have heard or said at least once or twice in their life.
Chuck More Reviews About: That title is arresting, but it’s meant in good humour with a dose of rue. In fact, this exhibition is a celebration of the talent Adelaide produces, along with some vintage pics and cartoons that show the old joke from the title has been alive and well since from generations past. Close-ups of hidden figures, paintings, photo essays, physical pieces (centre of the room, can’t miss), short film…. All somethings for Adelaide locals to be quietly proud of coming from their state. Plus a heartfelt part letter, part wish list essay from curator Tahney Fosdike about why she (like others) did as the title says.
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I get it, you moved to Melbourne media Release
Image: Lass On The Border Post, 1938. Courtesy of Mount Gambier Library.
I would like to acknowledge that the show’s artists and I exhibited on the traditional country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land.