What happens when you let some of Sydney’s most talented and innovative artists loose on the streets of Newtown?
Concrete TVs lie dormant in the gutters a statement about our consumerist lifestyle; a rusting Mercedes Benz is pried apart by giant mechanical ants; singing trees assail the senses; a giant toy soldier stands guard in a shopfront; projections scud across the walls, a railing comes alive…
2042: Art on the Street will transform Newtown into a vibrant urban art space, a street gallery that snakes through the public spaces, laneways, alleyways and shopfronts of 2042.
This dynamic festival will run from September 18 – October 6 2008 and presents an opportunity to create and explore art outside traditional institutionalised settings.
2042: art on the street is designed to combat the exclusivity fostered by institutional gallery spaces and celebrate the creative communities that exist in Sydney as well as their work, much of which is open to the skies and free to view day and night.
Featuring the work of artists such as Johnny Romeo, MAYS, Will Coles, Dillon MacEwan, Alan Giddy, Peter Williamson, Token Imagination and local street art legend Teazer. 2042: Art on the Street promises to lift the lid on the pulsing artistic scene that swirls and eddies throughout Sydney’s inner west, exposing the work of over 50 artists working across performance, new media, photography, street art, video, audio and installation.
Check out King Street as it comes alive…
2042: Art on the Street is an initiative of Inner West Cultural Services.
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