Abstract
Planning to evoke community awareness our knowing of our local and how we connect with it in order to explore problems of global climate change and disasters such as cyclones and epidemics, at the local level, has led my art practice to become site specific and performative. This situating of my art in urban and public space has had unpredictable and disconcerting effects as I disrupt local behavioural norms and provoke expressions of a particular politics of place. Carona Cape 2020 was one such performance that led to an incident involving the police, and the label of the artist as “mentally unstable”. This paper begins with an autoethnographic account of Carona Cape2020 as an artist’s reflection. It offers interpretation of the experience as a politics of place, drawing on the artist’s intention. In concluding, I ask if it’s possible or desirable for artists to avoid triggering expressions of coercive power and how this may affect our potential interaction with place meaning and feeling out of place.
Presenters
Yvette MartinMasters Candidate, College of Indigenous Futures, Education and the Arts, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory, Australia
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
The Arts in Social, Political, and Community Life
KEYWORDS
Place, Performance, Police, Intention, Disruption
