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Lynda Roberts 2010 Australia
Installation and narrowcast
Arena
seven thousand oaks festival
Saturday 26 June 2010 to Saturday 24 July 2010
Saturdays throughout the festival
June 26 & July 3, 10 and 24
Arena presents a series of interactive artworks that address sustainability from the perspective of five artists, including:
Sarah Duyshart
QingLan Huang
Jen Rae
Public Assembly artists Lynda Robert and Ceri Hann.
Curated by Jen Rae.
“The world needs coal and highways, but we do not need the results of strip-mining or highway trusts.
Economics, when abstracted from the world, is blind to natural processes. Art can become a resource, that mediates between the ecologist and the industrialist. Ecology and art are not one-way streets,
rather they should be crossroads.”
– Robert Smithson (1979)
The origins of the word ‘arena’ comes from the latin word ‘harena’ and denotes a place of sand where combats were held. In the context of the exhibition ARENA , Melbourne City Square is a site for engagement for five artists to address the public sphere on various issues related to sustainability – environmentally, socially and culturally.
Location
City Square
Corner of Swanston and Collins
