ATTENTION: ARTS EDITORS / WRITERS
MEDIA RELEASE
24 October 2001
VIDEO BANNED FOR ART EXHIBITION
The (management at) City of Port Phillip will not give consent for video
footage taken of management, Councilors and local community members
discussing the use of public space in St Kilda Talbot Reserve to be
presented as part of the Office Of Utopic Procedures at the Artist run space
WESTSPACE....
" I asked permission for the footage to be taken and now it seems that I
need written permission because the context no longer suits these
people...the basic idea is that people are encouraged to think more
creatively about the world we live in, the potential of the areas that we
inhabit, I am disappointed that the management of the city of Port Phillip
would go so far to try to not only censor members of the community who
appear on this video but most interestingly themselves." says artist Annette
Douglass.
EXHIBITION The Office of Utopic Procedures 18 Oct-10 Nov
@ WESTSPACE Inc. 1st floor 15 - 19 Anthony Street, Melbourne
Wed to Fri 12am - 6pm & Sat 11am - 5pm
SATELLITE EXHIBITION Economic fictions Ocular Lab 25 Oct - 4 Nov Ocular Lab,
31 Pearson Street, Brunswick West
OPENS THURSDAY October 24 6 - 8pm
Facility: internet, electronic and postal mail, fax, telephone, video,
drawing, photography, installation.
Office of Utopic Procedures centres around the idea of the "utopic", that
is, a form of "speech" which involves thinking outside the present,
envisaging the possible, thinking the critique of the present, recognising
the radicalism in structures and activating it, liberating it, acting on it.
The "utopic" is distinct from "utopia". It is not an abstracted or purified
image of perfection. It is a way of thinking and acting which is within the
present but outside its structures.
As a work in progress, the Office presents various aspects of the utopic.
For example, in notions of space, the rethinking of the nature of work,
questions of inhabitation and the nature of living spaces and conditions,
the visualisation of propositions concerning social justice and human
rights, questions of the construction of notions of value, questions of
technology, questions of ethics, questions of the (social) play of the
imagination, question for future action. Imaginary and actual, these
investigations include means of removing borders to establish freedom of
movement evident in the work of the group No One Is Illegal and the
controversial Triple Bottom Line inquiry in to how open public space is
valued in St Kilda's Talbot Reserve.
Artists: Bernard Sachs, Vera Moller, Tom Nicholson, John Abbate, No One Is
Illegal, Damiano Bertoli, Katherine Huang, Rod McLeish, Sean Loughrey,
Raafat Ishak, Annette Douglass, Josie Dujomvic, Alex Rizkalla Julie Davies,
Gary Wheeler, and local and international contributors.....
for more information please contact Kylie Wilkinson or Annette Douglass @
Westspace on 03 9328 8712
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