@misc{ed0ecc3e353c4639a4c543337598f143,
title = "Scarecrow",
abstract = "Group show.",
keywords = "Installation, performance",
author = "Spiros Panigirakis",
note = "Performance and process-driven sculpture Scarecrow explored the function of sited public sculpture within a 2 day-long event based at the Western Treatment Plant, Melbourne Water in Werribee. Through performance and process-driven sculpture, the project engaged and resisted the dominant qualities of the artwork{\textquoteright}s siting. These sited qualities included: the productive, organised and industrialised nature of the state{\textquoteright}s largest sewage treatment plants; the wet-land reserves of the site that host the 2nd largest congregation of bird life in Australia; the space of the modernist abstract sculpture in an administration building{\textquoteright}s foyer; and place of labour (its management and administration) within the field of art and broader social frameworks. The intention of Scarecrow was not to make sense of the site{\textquoteright}s qualities but to respond to these issues via a critical use of abstraction and obfuscation - in effect commenting on the prevalent orthodoxy in contemporary art of stable qualities of site-specificity. Exhibition curator interviewed on RRR radio program SmartArts and on 774 ABC radio program by Red Symonds. Exhibition discussed in The Age, 30 October 2015; Sydney Morning Herald, 30 October 2015; Herald Sun, 27 October 2015 and MPavillion round table conversation, 2 February 2016. ; Treatment: Six Public Artworks at the Western Treatment Plant ; Conference date: 14-11-2015 Through 21-11-2015",
year = "2015",
language = "English",
publisher = "Deakin University",
address = "Australia",
}