Inspired by seeing Pat and Tom’s great panorama, I’d just like to draw attention to Jimmy Nguyen’s autonomous contribution to re-thinking Push and Pull in an online environment - a cute interactive website.
Nick, our man on the scene, just sent me this email from Locksmith where he is minding the gallery:
so you may or may not have noticed or been aware of the signs stuck up along Botany Road advertising a garage sale with a picture of Kaprow. Well the date on the sign was for today and two of Zanny’s best students have just wandered in with a whole bunch of dot stickers and are sticking prices on everything in the space, with the intention of selling the objects in the space! today is a garage sale. i really really hope they sell something.
A few notes from the first night of Push and Pull at Locksmith Gallery…
As I mentioned in these pre-beginning ramblings, Nick and Astrid and I decided not to bust our butts hauling in a whole lot of furniture before the show. Instead, the idea was to incorporate the collecting of all the stuff which goes into Push and Pull, into the live public time-frame of the work itself.
So just before six on Thursday, people started trickling into … an empty room. A few people had been tipped off, and brought along small furnishings with them to get the ball rolling… a broken umbrella, some fake plant fronds, a urine-soaked cushion, a jigsaw puzzle… Read the rest of this entry »
The following is an extract from a voice recording I made of Lizzie. She reflects on her experience of being at the launch of Push and Pull, 28 May 2009. - Lucas
I got there about half an hour late… I came down the road with the van, and I noticed there were people spilling out onto the pavement … I thought it was fortuitous that there was a bench right outside Locksmith people can sit on. It extends the space, right out onto the street … you can sit on the bench and look right in … Read the rest of this entry »
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