The OK Collective (Oliver Cloke and Kathy Heyward)
Uniquely Yours – 155a Gertrude Street, Fitzroy 2065
17
August 2011
17
Aug
2011
3
Sep 2011
Uniquely Yours – 155a Gertrude Street, Fitzroy 2065
The OK Collective (Oliver Cloke and Kathy Heyward)
17
August 2011
17
August
2011
3
September 2011
‘Uniquely Yours’ screams aloud the sign of the times as neighbouring art-spaces are sold off and threatened with gentrification, and it’s mimicry – initially coincidental – becomes both artwork and art statement.
Through spatial re-appropriation the viewer is left de-centred; the inhabitant develops their relationship to the space through action and alteration and the viewer becomes not unlike a domestic visitor or, alternately, dependent upon their own resonance within the space, a voyeur. A social game is developed as a form of artwork and allowance is made for direct observation of how people function within private space – the irony of course, being obvious.
‘Uniquely Yours’ screams aloud the sign of the times as neighbouring art-spaces are sold off and threatened with gentrification, and it’s mimicry – initially coincidental – becomes both artwork and art statement.
Through spatial re-appropriation the viewer is left de-centred; the inhabitant develops their relationship to the space through action and alteration and the viewer becomes not unlike a domestic visitor or, alternately, dependent upon their own resonance within the space, a voyeur. A social game is developed as a form of artwork and allowance is made for direct observation of how people function within private space – the irony of course, being obvious.