Today I went a talk at the Wollongong City Gallery by Dr Dougal Philips representing the 17th Biennale of Sydney. I am here for this year’s plethora of international and Australian art at 12 locations in the Sydney CBD. Amazing! It will be like Germany’s ‘Documenta 12’ which I attended. Perhaps I will do performance here too. Speaking of which…there seems to be a lot of performance as part of the art offerings this year – a resurge, no doubt. Good fodder for my article for Art Monthly which I should be researching now.
One of the artists, Marcus Coates, is described as a ‘Radio Shaman’. His performance includes wearing the actual real ‘head’ of a dead animal and striking up conversation to consider human response to the animal’s situation. He finds this leads into attitudes people are otherwise out of ouch with….
This gives me a performance idea using my dog’s recent experience….might have to think about it but I am not saying here…
