image: An Index For The Homeless 2008
Gzllery 1 + 2 SafARI 2008
Mark Brown, Timothy Kendall Edser, Lucas Grogan, Luke Thurgate, curated by Lisa Corsi
What the Fringe Festival is to Edinburgh and Liste is to Basel, SafARI 2008 will be to Sydney during the 2008 Biennale of Sydney. SafARI is an exhibition presenting works by emerging and unrepresented Australian artists across three Artist Run Initiatives in Sydney (China Heights, MOP Projects and Gaffa). SafARI will include works in diverse media including photography, new media, ceramics and painting. SafARI will be timed to coincide with the first three crucial weeks of the 2008 Biennale of Sydney (13 June – 29 June 2008). This unofficial and unauthorised linkage, (made by the timing of the exhibition only), capitalises on the increased national and international focus on Sydney at that time in order to provide opportunities for all the artists, arts workers and art spaces involved.
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OUT OF GALLERY WORK An Index Of Kindness Ruark Lewis
AN INDEX FOR THE HOMELESS for Abercrombie Street JUNE 2008
There are many blind spots in cities that allow shelter spaces for homeless people. But the profit motive has little mercy for the disadvantaged. As the nature of public verses private space is contested, the outcast provide the shock troops. The Shiny, Tidy New City has little room for those who live outside. As public space is privatised or commercialised, spatial courtesies are engineered to be more and more hostile. Councils can make matters worse for the Homeless in tiny ways. Planners design to lock out the poor and less-mobile: benches have arm-rests in the centre and toilets have door timers or are permanently locked. Churches, too, are closing drop-in centres and soup kitchens.
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OUT OF GALLERY WORK An Index Of Kindness Ruark Lewis
AN INDEX FOR THE HOMELESS for Abercrombie Street JUNE 2008
There are many blind spots in cities that allow shelter spaces for homeless people. But the profit motive has little mercy for the disadvantaged. As the nature of public verses private space is contested, the outcast provide the shock troops. The Shiny, Tidy New City has little room for those who live outside. As public space is privatised or commercialised, spatial courtesies are engineered to be more and more hostile. Councils can make matters worse for the Homeless in tiny ways. Planners design to lock out the poor and less-mobile: benches have arm-rests in the centre and toilets have door timers or are permanently locked. Churches, too, are closing drop-in centres and soup kitchens.
This project is part of a series called An Index of Kindness. The street intervention directly on busy Abercrombie Street aims to remind citizens of Sydney that social inclusion is very important not just for homeless people. The work illuminates the plight of the Homeless in a poetic/political agit-prop. The language of the poetic/political I hope will engage people in a form of propaganda I’ve named Socio-Obligato. It seeks to personalise and empower the Homeless by providing greater recognition of the homeless as individuals and of their civil rights.
Ruark Lewis has exhibited widely in Australia and was included
Ruark Lewis has exhibited widely in Australia and was included
SafARI ARTISTS in 3 venues China Heights, Gaffa and Mop
Ron Adams, Liam Benson, Mark Brown, David Capra, Justin Cooper, Timothy Kendall Edser, Jessica Geron, Lucas Grogan, Chris Jones, Saskia Pandji Sakti, Luke Thurgate
Ron Adams, Liam Benson, Mark Brown, David Capra, Justin Cooper, Timothy Kendall Edser, Jessica Geron, Lucas Grogan, Chris Jones, Saskia Pandji Sakti, Luke Thurgate
SafARI EVENTS - Opening Night
6-9pm, Friday 13 June 2008, at MOP Projects
6-9pm, Friday 13 June 2008, at MOP Projects
- Public Forum with Barbara Flynn
3pm, Sunday 22 June 2008, at Gaffa
3pm, Sunday 22 June 2008, at Gaffa
- Artist Talks and ARI Tour
2pm, Saturday 28 June 2008, meeting at MOP Projects
2pm, Saturday 28 June 2008, meeting at MOP Projects
- Closing Party
6pm, Saturday 28 June 2008, at China Heights
6pm, Saturday 28 June 2008, at China Heights
MOP Projects 2 / 39 Abercrombie Street Chippendale Sydney NSW 2008
http://www.mop.org.au/
http://www.mop.org.au/
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