2005
Postering action over 10 consecutive nights, Melbourne, November 2005
Action for 2pm Sunday 6 July 1835 was an action undertaken in Melbourne in November 2005. 1,000 pairs of posters were pasted around the city on a nightly basis for ten nights.
The posters show William Buckley, the escaped convict from Macclesfield who lived with the Wathaurung people around Geelong for three decades. The work centers on 6 July 1835, when Buckley rejoined European settlers, arriving with several Wathaurung men at a camp site at Indented Head established by John Batman and his commercial venture The Port Phillip Association. The work was conceived as a meditation on this meeting, a moment of peculiar political significancewhich was also a popular subject for 19th century image-making. The action was undertaken in a nocturnal space, a space connected to the work’s function as a kind of memorial.
The project was part of the first Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture (and an installation a Federation Square formed part of the exhibition for the Prize).
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Traces of the action, including a 30-second video work, were subsequently exhibited in the exhibition, Ghosts of self and state, curated by Geraldine Barlow, 5 April – 10 June, at the Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.
Credits for the project
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