2009
Four two-sided sandwich boards with adhesive digital prints, moved between five sites over a four week period, dimensions variable.
Exh.: West Brunswick Sculpture Triennial, curated by OSW (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester, and Scott Mitchell), also including Fiona Abicare, Marcus Bergner, Terri Bird with Fiona Abicare, Stephen Bram, Matthew Brown, Mick Douglas with Cultural Transports Collective, Mikala Dwyer, Ardi Gunawan, Bianca Hester with Saskia Schut, Christoper LG Hill, Lucas Ihlein, Susan Jacobs, Lisa Kelly, Nick Mangan, Sally Marsland, Spiros Panigirakis, Nikos Pantazis, Alex Rizkalla, Geoff Robinson & Jennie Lang, Saskia Schut, Helen Walter, Jude Walton with Phoebe Robinson, 21 March 12 April 2009, over four sites: wBST base camp, 135 Union Street, Brunswick; Anstey and Ashton; Ocular Lab; Nikos' Rear Entrance; and 461 Albert Street, Brunswick West.
Proposition for a banner march and black cube hot air balloon was a set of sandwich boards dispersed around the different sites of the wBST. The sandwich boards are part of an ongoing series of forms and events conceived as propositions towards a future public action involving a banner march and a black cube shaped hot air balloon. The balloon tries to follow the march. The march tries to follow the balloon. The action is an endless wandering. The sandwich boards were conceived in the spirit of the wandering enacted by endless propositions towards an imagined event.
The image on the sandwich boards was taken from a dawn action undertaken at the Arden Street football ground in March 2007 during the demolition of its main grandstand, an action also conceived as a proposition towards the future event with banners and a black cube hot air balloon. The sandwich boards were moved around the different sites of the wBST over the course of the Triennial, sometimes configured in isolation, on other occasions in clusters of two or three.
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The first manifestation of this collaboration between Raafat Ishak and Tom Nicholson was in 2004 in the exhibition 2004: Australian Culture Now at the National Gallery of Victoria.
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