PLATFORM: Public art installation
PLATFORM 2009-2012 is an ongoing series of changing public artworks designed to engage, inform and entertain.
Four times a year, Museum of Brisbane commissions artworks are installed into photographic lightboxes located on the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital Busway Station. These lightboxes are situated on the elevated carriageway of the Inner Northern Busway along Bowen Bridge Road, Herston, directly in front of the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital and opposite the RNA Showgrounds. The project literally provides a platform for the launch of artists and ideas that are deeply connected to the location. PLATFORM has been devised by the Public Art Unit, Project Services; is curated by Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane City Council and has received financial assistance through Arts Queensland from art+place, the Queensland Government’s Public Art Fund.
Current artists on show Friday 9 December 2011 – Friday 9 March 2012
Inbound platform
SIMON CUTHBERT
Lower-case-modern 2011 (Stones Corner Drive In)
In modernism, architecture found an ally in the appropriate alignment of form and function that distinguishes remarkable buildings. The egalitarian principles associated with this style resulted in a proliferation of examples that are distinctive as much for their playfulness as they are for the diversity of types. Few epochs are as catholic for the influence we may discern across disparate forms; from industrial to residential, civic to iconic, commercial to ecclesiastic. The fluidity of the modern aesthetic ensured its place as the first truly global architectural style. Our urban environments remain alive to these influences, sometimes in the most unlikely of places.
Outbound platform
JANE CRAPPSLEY
The poetics of (transient) space 2011
Waiting at a platform for our next vehicle to transport us from ‘A’ to ‘B’, we are neither ‘here’ nor ‘there’ yet. We are somewhere in-between cycling through a holding pattern till we can move to our next space. The moments we repeatedly exist in transient in-between spaces can be moments to let our minds wander unbounded by the requirements of our other spaces.
Images:
SIMON CUTHBERT, Lower-case-modern 2011 (Stones Corner Drive In) digital print;
JANE CRAPPSLEY, The poetics of (transient) space 2011 digital print.
