National Organisation of Media Arts Database

Avoca Project

Project Second life artist-in-residence // Project Avoca Project

Provided by
RMIT

Run since 2007

Website: www.avocaproject.org

The Avoca Project is an international art project in regional Victoria, Australia, centred on the ‘Swiss House’ – a pre-fabricated gold rush residence imported from Switzerland (or perhaps Germany) in 1850. This house is thus an immigrant, its walls revealing stories of wealth and a European glamour now faded by the harshness of the climate and the increased poverty that is the result of globalization and drought in rural Australia