Aaron Carter + Amy Marjoram + Andrew Atchison + Andrew Kershaw
Ben Raynor + Briony Barr + Candice Cranmer + Charis McKittrick
Clinton Milroy & Kevin Chin + Devon Ackermann + Hao Guo
Joel Zika + Kate Robertson + Ka-Yin Kwok + Keith Wong
Kel Glaister + Kieran Stewart + Kiron Robinson + Lily Feng
Lou Hubbard + Louis Porter + Marion Piper + Michael Meneghetti
Paul Yore + Rebecca Adams + Remie Cibis + Sanja Pahoki
Siân Darling + Tamsin Green + Yvette King
with a video commentary by Mark McGowan- The Artist Taxi Driver (UK)
Curated by Amy Marjoram
with YouTube program curated by Remie Cibis
Mark McGowan- The Artist Taxi Driver (UK) was invited to discuss what he thinks is Better Than Art. The video he made in response to this request ‘Torturing David Cameron and the Queen is better than art’ is above.
“These days you get five million people looking at a fucking youtube video of I don’t know, a polar bear eating an ice cream or something.”- Keith Wong
image courtesy of Heather Lighton- http://heatherdiaries.blogspot.com/
-jack has a momentary freak out from robotic ducks and running in the gallery, nothing a quick cuddle cant fix.
Siân Darling
Jack Darling, mixed breed dog
Jack Darling was rescued from the barely clasping clutches of a pregnant woman on heroin. He was on a main road, almost hit by a car right before our eyes. When we told the woman, she said, “Oh that’s ok. He’s fine. We don’t even really want him.” When we asked why he was covered in scabs, she said, “Oh, my partner kicks him n stuff. Yeah, we don’t really want him.” The woman was doing a favour to jack’s first owner, a former barrister who became an alcoholic and who passed away. With his shady history of abuse and self-sufficiency, Jack bears no grudge to humans. In fact, he often glistens his eyes in our direction, offering anything he can. Jack’s gentle disposition is better than art.
1 tennis ball sized chunk of Blu-Tack studded with a range of picture-hanging pins accumulated over years of hanging 2D works on the walls of my workplace.
A small clear container of bread packet ‘best before’ clips – approx 3,000 given to me by Ross Coulter circa 2005.
From the bed sheets to bad streets, this two in one will be the most reassuring garment out there. Now you can feel like someone always has your back.
Available in XXXL and XXXXL.
This sign was on a church in Weimar. The text translates as “Faith is like a rope that you can hold on to.” I like it because they included a real rope that is a) too short to be of any use, and b) not attached to anything.
Glow Sticks In The Shape of a Penis Wall decoration sighted at a house party in which the theme was “Botanic Rave”, 2010 (reconstructed for Better Than Art from an iphone photo)
In a modified set up at Kings Ari, a nine metre Beep Test track has been laid out to see what fitness level participants can achieve. The Beep test (otherwise known as the Shuttle run) works by running in short sprints back and forth at the start of a beep. There are ten shuttle runs to every level and the frequency of the beeps increases as the test rolls on, making it harder to continue running. When a participant can longer keep up with the beeps, the last level reached determines the fitness. The Australian Defence Force fitness test passing requirement is level 7.5.
More often than not, health and physical well being is not cultivated into a professional art practice. With Art, the level of excellence achieved is gauged in a subjective manner, through suffering, sacrifice and determination. Fitness improvement is linear, it starts with a commitment similar to art producing tangible results.
Peter works at the Richmond station Customer Service Desk. Each week he composes a new motivational adage for the pin board which he displays in rainbow coloured paper letters. This is one of my favorites.
Better Than Art 