Public Writing

Artist lead commisisons for public art work are at the fore of the mulitdisciplinary studies and research of urbanism and the creative arts as they have the capacity to generate a sense of ownership, forging the connection between citizens, cities and their meaning as places through which subjectivity is constructed (Paddison & Miles, 2007) Similar commissions include Artangel (UK) and New York Public Art Fund (USA) The grant received to develop the Public Writing was the City of Melbourne Laneway Commission: a nationally recognised and internationally competitive commission judged and awarded by a panel of peers. The commission is in its 10th year and has influence public art policy and practice at a nationally level through the works created. Review 2010 Artlink. Contemporary art of Australia and the Asia-Pacific Vol. 30 No 3 Art in the Public Arena. Strangers and the Slow Laneway Experience. P. 55 Two aspect of this work could be defined as new knowledge. The first concerns the subject and content in investigating the City of Melbourne's Protocols on Artworks and "what can be said and what goes wtihout saying" in a government commission. (soon after though not as a result of this work, legisation against swearing in public was proposed) The second concerns a similar notion in this work incorporating and promoting the various forms of street art by others (poster/object/aerosol) within a heritage area. This work operated within the idea of tolerance and what is permitted/prohibited through disinterest or law enforcement.