The Long Game explores one artwork, The Care Taker, iterated across multiple sites, as a slow and gentle resistance to current divisive political discourses in Australia. By placing a familiar domestic set in public spaces and asking participants to reveal something personal about themselves, the installation places a sense of intimacy and care in public places. Based in Social Acupuncture theory (O’Donnell, 2006) a site responsive practice produces iterations adapted to place, to engage diverse social and cultural audiences in suburban Australia. Using care, kindness and generosity as the foundations of each iteration, the artist considers how gentle transgression or activation of public space can open and connect strangers to each other, and hopefully inspire empathy and kindness which over time may contribute to social change.
The Long Game
Abstract
Published: 2019-11-30
Pages:141
to 154
Section:
RMIT University: Master of Arts (Art in Public Space)
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How to Cite
Goronszy, D. (2019) “The Long Game”, The Journal of Public Space, 4(3), pp. 141-154. doi: https://doi.org/10.32891/jps.v4i3.1226.
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References
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O’Donnell, D. (2006), ‘Social acupuncture: a guide to suicide, performance and utopia’, Coach House Books, Toronto.
Lothian, S. (2018), ‘Guerrilla kindness& other acts of creative resistance’, Mango Publishing Group, Florida.
O’Donnell, D. (2006), ‘Social acupuncture: a guide to suicide, performance and utopia’, Coach House Books, Toronto.