"Winds of Light" - new Emu Bank art piece

I-filed said :

http://www.arts.act.gov.au/pages/page149.asp

Ahh, the old “hide it on page 149 trick”, that’s the second time I’ve fallen for that this month.

Geez, it looks like a left-over stage prop from Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s world tour of 1984.

Gungahlin Al said :

anonymous gungahlian said :

Does anyone have any pictures of it?

In the link document AG.

Oh. I see… lol.

Send your feedback on public art to the current arts policy “consultation” the Chief Minister is running. It’s almost impossible to find on the web – and unfortunately search terms don’t find it on the act.gov.au website.

http://www.arts.act.gov.au/pages/page149.asp

Ignore the form, and send your views to the email: artsreview@act.gov.au – it will be treated as a submission.

Or just post here – citizens will I’m sure make sure views on this site are forwarded through.

anonymous gungahlian said :

Does anyone have any pictures of it?

In the link document AG.

Does anyone have any pictures of it?

And I thought with that name it’d be a wind powered lighting sculpture, guess I’m really not in touch with my arty side.

Can the homeless people live in it?

Man With The Plan said :

And how many 100s of 1000s of tax/ratepayer dollars did Stalinhope spend on this piece of scrap metal?

Be fair.

“Highly Polished” piece of scrap metal…

Just as the platypus is a duck designed by committee, this looks like an artwork and an application designed purely to please a committee with funding to throw around.
This is Peter Blizzard’s webpage.

If we’re going to keep the Percent for Art scheme rolling, I’d prefer we set aside the 1% into a funding pool, and acquired on an internationally notable\regionally notable basis, with a purely open process of site nomination & art selection, with rotating membership of the governing panel.
The current “Panel member appointment by Stanhope” process, with art acquisition quotas & annual reporting, where nothing gets announced until after the decisionmaking process is over is turning out a hell of a lot of bad art.
When was the last time we bought something even slightly mainstream?

Is the Arts panel aiming to acquire ‘art that everyone can like’, but isn’t actually liked strongly by anyone?
(And the ArtsACT chronological public art list is way out of date…)

Cranky:
I too had noticed that Stanhope’s Art & Culture programs seem to be run primarily for one man’s benefit, with his ‘the public will benefit too’ justifications being incidental.

Phototext:
Artists seeking grants do talk an entirely different semantic argot.
(The words are English, but the sentences don’t make sense to any non-arts-grants person.)