Know Thy Neighbour #4: Cassandra Tytler

The Town has teamed up with arts organisation SPACED to support Know Thy Neighbour, a metro-focused residency program that commissions socially engaged, context-responsive art projects embedded in Perth’s neighbourhoods.

This fourth iteration, Know Thy Neighbour #4: Gestures, turns its attention to the small but powerful acts that connect people and place. This collaboration will see eight WA-based artists undergo residences in places both specific and widespread across metropolitan Perth, supported by local governments, arts organisations and community associations. The artists will research and create as socially engaged practitioners, engaging with local participants and communities to develop concepts and respond to the social, environmental and historical contexts they encounter.

Learn more about Know Thy Neighbour #4 on the SPACED website here.

Cassandra Tytler with Town of Victoria Park

Cassandra Tytler will take up residence in the town at Leisurelife from May to July 2026.

Cassandra is an artist and researcher whose practice spans experimental moving image, performance, and site-based socially engaged artworks. Known for her wry humour and incisive critique, Tytler combines storytelling and technical experimentation to investigate the intersections of politics, place, and power. Her installations and performances often unfold through site-responsive encounters that draw audiences into the layered conditions of a location, where humour and play sit alongside an engagement with environmental and social questions.

Project Title: Soft Assembly

Concept/Theme: A series of participatory performance games, developed through community input, that use critical play to engage with Burswood Park/Joorolup and the wider Town of Victoria Park. Through cooperative gameplay, participants work through complex social and environmental tensions while also encountering these places in a more open, playful way. The games are structured so that form emerges through collective interaction rather than being fixed in advance.

Relevance: This project works with residents of the Town of Victoria Park to create a space where local concerns and tensions around development and environmental change can be expressed and worked through via participatory play. It responds to the theme of Gestures by focusing on small, collective actions that give form to these positions.

How to get involved

Soft Assembly: Public Training Session #1

Are you fit for public assembly?

Join Cassandra for a free 'training session' involving modified games in the park. Competitive instincts optional!

When: 11am-12.30pm, Saturday 13 June

Where: Leisurelife Centre, Junior Activity Room

This event is an experimental public game session exploring cooperation, maintenance, rest, and minor public absurdities through a series of short rotating activities.

Structured somewhere between a public training drill, participatory artwork, and cooperative game, the session invites people to test unusual forms of coordination, observation, and collective behaviour in a low-pressure setting.

No particular skill level or sporting ability required. Participants and observers welcome.

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