A Stage for New Parenthood 
MPavilion, Melbourne (2017/18)

4-part event series: HOUSE, STREET, DISTRICT, CITY

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Having a baby changes your perception of the city. Suddenly things become less accessible: trams are difficult to lift a pram into, there’s no space in your favourite cafe to change a nappy and events happen at night while you soothe your baby to sleep—and so the trials of new parenthood are mostly screened off from public view.

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Guest, Riggs inverted this private spectacle in a 4-part event series featured in MPavilion's 2017/18 public program; exposing the banalities of new parenthood in Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten’s amphitheatre-style structure. Taking Rem Koolhaas’s and David Gianotten’s statement that the space could function as a playground literally: the floor was given over to babies’ exploits, made possible with a series of baby-friendly interventions within MPavilion.

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Read Guest, Riggs Q&A with MPavilion and the individual event blurbs for House, Street, District, and City.

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Photography by Layla Cluer.