Monday 9 August 2010

Cockatoo Island, Biennale, art

Cockatoo Island featured 120 works by 56 artists during the 17th Biennale of Sydney. Being a former industrial site, the island provides some interesting surroundings for the art work such as this one, Kasbah created by Kader Attia. This art work is made from rooftop materials collected from improvised dwellings and shanty towns on the fringes of cities across the world, complete with television antennas and satellite dishes. Visitors were invited to walk along an uneven path across them.

18 comments:

  1. What a perfect work for an industrial site.

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  2. Mmm ... For mine this work is too horizontal. I would like it to occupy more air space or the shape of the building it is housed in is wasted. As I said last week, one of the few times in life when the packaging is more interesting than the contents!

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  3. Julie, I must admit that a lot of the contemporary artwork displayed had me scratching my head. :)

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  4. I love this photo Jim. WHat a nice shot - ooh, maybe it would also be nice in BW... what do you think?

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  5. Evelyn, I think it could work quite well in Black and White. It would really suit the surrounds.

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  6. very interesting Jim, I didn't get over there so thanks.

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  7. What a huge hall, not easy to convey a good sense of the artwork, though. The links were very helpful, too.

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  8. Funny, but I can't say anything more of this... thing!

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  9. You sure that's not the back shed of Bannings, Jim?

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  10. Ha ha. It could easily pass as a Bunnings hardware depot, Bill.

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  11. About the only feeling I have for this installation is that I feel fortunate not to live in a shanty.

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  12. Weird. I never know if artists do these projects because they see things diff than the rest of us, or if they're trying to see what they can get away with.

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  13. Very interesting and the place looks fantastic to house this kind of art.

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  14. Sorry I'm so late to this one. Was just commenting on one of my fav art exhibits and found your post with a pic.

    The best thing about this exhibit which you seem to have missed were the car tires.

    Once I rolled one over some rooftops everyone had a ball doing the same. Never seen so many stupidly happy people enjoying art.

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