Promised Land

Exhibition Details

EXHIBITION DETAILS

Organising Institution
Artist's initiative with support from: School of Visual Arts, WAAPA@ECU; Perth International Arts Festival 2001 Visual Arts Festival; The Canberra School of Art, Australian National University; and the Canberra Museum & Gallery

EXHIBITION CURATOR/ARTIST
Nien Schwarz

Category
A, B & C (selected)

Medium
Installation up to 36 rusted metal shelves with 600 paper shopping bags, 3 unframed paper collage and pigment scrolls. A3.5 x 3.5 metre map on calico collage

Installation
4 works, each with multiple components. Versatile floor installation of shopping bags place on metal cantilevered shelves. Floor installation approximately 43.2 running metres. Large collage can be wall mounted or placed on floor. Approximately 35 running metres (dimensions are variable)

Cost Share
WA $1,210.00 (gst inclusive)

Documentation
50 Colour Catalogues gratis, Media kit with press release and press photos

Education
Educational Packages (includes teachers notes, catalogue, A3 activity sheet)

Crates
6 crates, 1 tube, totalling 7.05 cubic metres

Tour Duration
November 2002 - December 2004
Available WA and interstate

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS EVENTS
Sponsored by Healthway for Asthma WA
to promote the message Smarter than Smoking

Detail of 'Clearance', Nien Schwartz, 1997-2001. Dimensions variable. Installation comprising 600 bags (quantity variable)

An installation work by Australian sculpture artist Nien Schwarz will be presented at Albany, Kalgoorlie and Esperance as part of the West Australian tour during 2002/3.

In the face of increasing land and water degradation is it possible to create an ecologically sustainable future? What is sustainable to begin with?

Created from hundreds of emergency edition topographic maps of Australia distributed during the 1940s, the four works in 'Promised Land' considers the collective impact of global daily consumption on the environment with wit, subtlety and beauty.

'Clearance', a central work, consists of a large installation of rows of shopping bags, created from 600 emergency edition maps interspersed with mirrored sections and text. The artist draws the viewer into a dialogue which provokes discussion and consideration of the issues of ecology, sustainability, consumerism and art.

Special Exhibition Events such as free and subsidised bus travel to the exhibition for schools will ensure regional school audiences have an opportunity to access the exhibition during school hours.

An extensive Education Package designed especially for use in Primary and Secondary schools and a 24-page colour catalogue accompanies 'Promised Land'.