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Showing posts with label Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

The Given As An Art-Political Statement

Here is TV3 's news programme about the Dane Mitchell work and the TWNCAA.

Here is also TV1's take on the winner.

I'm curious to know more about the artist's instructions: the details, like plinth size, quantity of discarded packaging etc. Was the rubbish selected or did it all get included? If you look at the photographs with my article, you will notice they are not consistent.(Like the different shots of the TV3 programme). The physical properties of the work keep changing.