"Sweaty Saturday"

Outer Space Brisbane - Location Location Location Exhibition

2021

 

Location, location, location seeks to challenge the persisting associations of the urban as a place of centrality by superimposing it with critical reflections on positionality. By harnessing the immovable concrete structure of the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, artists were invited to map out their psychogeographical coordinates onto its public-facing façade. As a result, the projections explore the myriad physical, spiritual, and political landscapes we choose or are forced to inhabit and that shape our own unique sense of location or locus.

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Sweaty Saturday depicts a Saturday night scene on West End's Boundary Street, translating the street’s contemporary hybridity into an animated illustration replete with idiosyncratic characters. The area of Boundary Street outside Archive demonstrates a laissez-faire approach to urban development in the face of expanding commerce. In Sweaty Saturday, we see the strip’s mounting parallel universes: mobile app delivery drivers convening on the carpark edge, the ancient cop shop in the old Queenslander, and a constant stream of bar-hoppers. On a hot Brisbane night, sweat may be the only equalising agent of these disparate human realities.

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