Uncertain Occupation: Cultural Transports at Play

An arts practice of undertaking projects in the public domain of Melbourne Australia has been exploring uncertainty in temporary public occupation by working through tramways and pedal-powered modes of transport as its medium. By disrupting the orthodoxy of everyday forms of organisation ¿ such as those distinguishing between possession/appropriation, artist/non-artist and artwork/audience ¿ these projects induce an uncertainty in occupying place and position. The projects mobilise the power of occupation away from its commonly polarised concentration or fragmentation toward a distribution of power and engaged investment amongst heterogeneous participants. This `cultural transports¿ practice works toward demonstrating an aesthetic politics enabling experience of ephemeral moments that reveal the potentiality of social relations bonded by the reciprocity of care, generosity and hope. The telling of the practice here is undertaken by tracing the elliptical lines of two projects.