Towards a monument to the Great Strike

TY - ADVS

T1 - Towards a monument to the Great Strike

A2 - Nicholson, Tom

A2 - Bryne, Andrew

N1 - Proposition for a future monument: 19 framed texts and images, and musical performance for massed brass and wind instruments, 45 minutes, performed 5 August 2017. Curators: Nina Miall and Laila Ellm Composer Andrew Byrne and artist Tom Nicholson’s collaborative project 'Towards a monument to the Great Strike' is a proposition that would reinscribe a set of Brutalist vents in Sydney’s Domain as a monument to the Great Strike. Situated in the industrial architecture of Carriageworks, the proposition takes the form of a wall-based work and a musical performance for massed brass instruments – conceived as a launch for this future monument. This new work focuses on the persistent importance of the Great Strike: the way we measure labour and its relationship to time; the urgencies of solidarity and internationalism in how we organise ourselves politically; and how we gather ourselves to enact the futures we believe in. It also meditates on words themselves: how words can inscribe forms; how words gather us together, to recollect together; how words persist into a future, and call forth our deeds towards the promise of those words.

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

M3 - Commissioned or Visual Artwork

PB - Carriageworks

CY - Sydney, NSW, Australia

T2 - 1917: The Great Strike

Y2 - 15 July 2017 through 27 August 2017

ER -