Feature | RePerth

Aug 21

Gift Culture Experiment

Recently, instead of receiving birthday presents, we asked friends and family to contribute to a small Gift Culture experiment that would help money flow towards human creativity and cultural life in Western Australia and elsewhere around the world. More than 20 people and one business have so far contributed over $1,000 to the experiment. We aim to give away all of this money in the coming weeks to some of the many individuals and organisations fostering cultural renewal – fostering the generation of new thoughts, meanings, stories, values, identity – through education, research, art, spacemaking for social innovation etc., including those who are actively re-imagining the social organism as a whole, as well as money itself. In so doing we hope to provide a Read more

May 28

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Blue River Swan – By Tom Muller

The Capital Mirage

As Above so Below

Perth as a reflection of itself

Tom Muller, “Blue River Swan”, 2009
C-type photograph, 40 x 45 cm
Courtesy of the artist.
Click on image to enlarge.

May 24

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RePerth: From Capital City to Capital City

It is often mentioned that Perth, Western Australia, is the most isolated state-capital city in the world. It is around a three-hour flight to the next capital city in Australia (Adelaide). Perth is closer to cities in Indonesia than to every Australian capital other than Adelaide.[1] Yet this isolation may not be limited to mere physical distances. Read more

May 22

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A Creative Boom – By Katie Dobb

Many of us have come to call this land home – whether our ancestors have lived here for tens of thousands of years, whether we were born here, whether we have had children here, or whether our destiny has brought us here.

This place that sits on what we call the Swan River, and looks out west to sunsets over ocean. The place some call the most isolated city in the world; the biggest country town; and, lately, the largest Chinese mining camp. Read more