Haven’t we talked about this arrondissement nonsense before?
http://www.vincent.wa.gov.au/Home/News/%E2%80%9CNew_York%E2%80%9D_NRM_Seating_Artwork
Why is the TOV going to New York for chair design? Surely we have some wanky arse rest designers here? Probably find 20 just on Beaufort Street. How much did it cost for these “rights”? Did they realise that Clickboompow has “Creativity takes courage” written in chalk on their website? Why aren’t Jezza Bell and Dog’s Bollock Pollock covering this scandal for Perth Voice? Not communist enough for you guys?
Maybe it’s because I’m an Arrondissement Sympathiser (or maybe Fellow Traveller), but I don’t see the problem with making ‘bum’ rests more attractive. Should we reinstall the retro yellow bins in the city too?
C’mon. Getting the rights from a Noo Yoik collective? The whole document has worsts oozing out of it.
Fair call – the Noo Yawk connection has Worst potential. I didn’t realise there was a patent on chairs.
I like the sound of establishing a pace of intrigue. And is this an activated urban space ?
Previous art didn’t engage the community? Blame the community THEN the art.
“and the key indicator if you look at the space is ‘people are touching each other.’”
I’d rather not have people touching me when I sit on a public bench, but if it means creating a Unique Experience and A place of Intrigue, then that is the price to pay.
Indeed, Jack: we must all make sacrifices in the embiggening of the vibrancy hub node corridors.
No – just an active swingers hub…
Not sure about the guy looking out of the window then, RR. They might have more success with this or this.
The Lillee mo, every time.
Although the forlorn hope of the guy in the original picture is kinda winsome in an unhappy hipsters kinda way.
no just the yellow clipper
Ovens
“The chairs are designed to be only functional when in concert with their environment – so in other words, until they are attached to a vertical surface.”
Thanks for the clarification, town of vincent. #thumbsup
“…and the key indicator if you look at the space is ‘people are touching each other.’”
I thought that’s what the Hyde Park public toilets are for.
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I have never seen these ridiculous things, and a quick look at the Click Boom Pow Crash Bang Whatever the Hell website suggests I won’t be expecting to do so in the near to immediate future.
Memo to the City of Vincent: just because something is made in New York does not make it “New York Style.”
Jeezus, their webpage is a worst in itself! Creativity takes courage. I might have to add that image. Barkeep, please take a shot if you see one in situ. articularly if it’s broken.
You have to really ask why Vincent had to go to New York for the design. How much did it cost to buy these “rights”?
Post updated. They can add The Worst f Perth to their Press section.
In my experience, every time there is a call for artists to decorate some object, it is always a disaister. We have a similar one here where artists decorate deckchairs. Uggh.
‘Creativity takes bipolar disorder’, more like. Ask any poet.
Vibrant hubs aside, that’s more like it. Not worst, AGWA.
That would be the venue that now has to close one day a week because it can’t afford to cover the electricity bill for lighting.
*head in hands*
and for two weeks over christmas…
Perth shuts for January. What’s the problem?