LAUNCESTON GATEWAY

ON THE AVAILABLE EVIDENCE 

The selected ARTIST no matter who she or he is is being ripped off by design. 

By how much!?

ARGUABLY they will only receive about 25% of the fee that they should be receiving and they are being told take it or leave it apparently!

WHY IS THIS HAPPENING 

IN 2025!?

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CONTEXT LINK [1] - [2]

THE BURNIE PROJECT

THE QUESTION IS STILL HANGING

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AS PLONK/PLOP ART

"I don't want to make plop art — sculpture that just gets plopped down in places. I wouldn't

want to litter every corner of the

world with my sculpture."

Rachel Whiteread

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AS SOCIAL SCULPTURE

“Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives.”

― Joseph Beuys

PRESS EXAMINER https://yellagate.blogspot.com/p/press_5.html

SUBMISSION

FOREWORD

This paper is a speculative unsolicited response to recent events in the ARTworld in lutruwitaTasmania that have alerted a number of cultural producers to the mindsets that drive these projects. What comes to the attention of many is that public patronage in the arena of public artmaking and cultural production seems to have become distorted and embroiled in politics.

That is, distorted politically and otherwise in ways that leave Communities of Ownership and Interest haplessly standing on the sidelines in their CULTURALlandscapes – relative to their placemaking aspirations and abilities. 

People belong to places and places do not belong to people.

'Places' are not merely spaces waiting for someone to happen along and occupy them or spaces waiting for something to happen in. Cultures transform spaces into 'places' and in turn our cultural realities shape them. 

Likewise, a place's geography in its turn shapes and makes cultures in all their diversity. It has ever been thus.

CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN PUBLIC SPACES AND PLACES

It often happens that an art student will ask their lecturers what they must do to become famous – AKA rich. It's a really silly question because if their lecturer had the remotest idea about getting to be famous they would not be where they are to have such questions put to them. Making 'Art' is a tricky business! ...... TO READ MORE CLICK HERE