![]() ![]() Although seemingly benign by comparison, (except perhaps now through the lens of Covid-19), David Cross’ presentation of Anthony Johnson’s artwork Eclipse investigates repeated everyday gestures, such as sitting on a bus, crossing the road, or washing windows as actions that produce public space in down-town Hobart, Australia. Siri Lee’s faction, ZÀO, aims to circumventing the cultural amnesia of the profoundly disturbing and devastating Maoist ideology of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, where between 20-63, million people perished. In fact, through these art interventions, it is shown how normative, quotidian public space and its implicit conventional behaviours produced by belief structure and ideologies are far less benign than initially assumed. ![]() However, what struck me in each of these presentations was the way art can reveal to us the systems of producing public space and culture which is often invisible to us. Your projects span the globe-from Chile, China, Australia to European contexts and the United States. Simone Slee (SS): Thank you Chelsea Coon, David Cross, Siri Lee and Anthony McInneny and Beatriz Maturana Cossio for your compelling presentations. ![]()
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