NEW! NEW! NEW! ENJOY JOURNAL
Public Good Itinerant responses to collective space

A journal published by Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Edited by Paula Booker and Marnie Slater
Released 19 July 2008
4pm launch at Enjoy, Wellington
Only $18 from Enjoy and selected stockists.

A new publication by Enjoy questions expected notions of art in public, and asks what alternatives may be offered. Considering the increasing amount of funds and energy being directed towards the commissioning of art sited within public space, and the continual civic development of the urban landscape, we thought it timely to attempt a collected discussion into the obviously political, and forever elusive notion of The Public.

Here in New Zealand, public art has recently been brought to the fore of contemporary art discourse through an exploration of new contexts and audiences. Events including SCAPE Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space running since 2002, and One Day Sculpture, a series of place-based public art commissions unfolding across 2008-2009, contribute to a wider interrogation fixed notions of public artin an epochof the dematerialised object and a fragmented public sphere.


Public Good is a collection of critical essays, artist’s pageworks and prose pivoting around an exploration of The Public. The journal draws from local and international contributions and sees the coming together of diverse voices and interpretations from practitioners locally and internationally to form a varied thesis, offering a springboard for argument, thought and discussion.



Contributors:
Fiona Amundsen (Auckland)
Christina Barton (Wellington)
JC Borrelle (Melbourne)
Kate Brettkelly-Chalmers (Auckland)
Kah Bee Chow (Penang/Auckland
Tim Corballis (Wellington)
Harold Grieves (Christchurch)
Rudolph Hudsucker (Wellington)
Tushar Joag (Bombay)
Dane Mitchell (Auckland)
Kate Newby (Auckland)
Rachel O’Neill (Wellington)
Spiros Panigirakis (Melbourne)
Chaitanya Sambrani (Canberra)
Shuddhabrata Sengupta (New Delhi)
Simon Sheikh (Berlin/Copenhagen)


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