consumer temple - broken icon

notes:

:::: installation for the Armory Exhibition 09, June 27 to September 27, Newington Armory, Sydney Olympic Park




:::: accentuated actual sound recorded on site at dawn - generated by the local bell frogs, bird life and distant peak our traffic.

artist statement:

A shipping container and timber pallets are combined to form an upright architectural proposition. The work appears in a state of stable decay, sitting still and singular in the green expanse. A narrow entrance leads into an intimately walled enclosure offering no out other than the way of entry. Through the walls only fragmented glimpses of an outer world are discernible. In the relative darkness the eye is drawn up into the airy chamber high above, where light beams through small windows onto a centrally suspended item. It is a cash register, hanging beaten, broken and looted.

While the architecture may be suggesting a foreign house of worship, its deity and practices however are imaginable and may feel oddly familiar. In its dilapidated state it may be read as a post-abandonment scenario, where the faith that has brought this house into being is clearly no longer dispensed here.

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[manumente]

... most of the comments sent privately suggest that people are wanting to know the work in more detail.

I can refer you to my website where the work is detailed. YouTube doesn't allow me to put an actual link in here. If you google the title of the work,

"consumer temple - broken icon",

... the correct page should be the first thing that pops up - perhaps include my name in the search also. It is detailed there with specs, artist statement and imagery.

Thank you, gary

[nicco47]

MMMmmm I was so hungry when i came out of that maze, so kind of you to leave me some bread.

thank you

[manumente]

... love the fact that we don't know each other. Its one thing to have felt something its another to have shared it. your words too have me fuller. thank you

[uncertainty101]

I appreciate your imagination!!! I wish I could have experienced it in person.

Also I felt this vid was more about the work itself, unlike your "hollow promise - cottesloe", if that makes sense?

[manumente]

... you're spot on. I was aware of documenting the work here, where as the vid of the other, installed in a very public setting, emerged as a work in its own right.

thank you

[AndrewMay100]

das ist gott javol

[XaveJamesGrey]

Glad you posted this. Intriguing and inspiring.