January 13, 2012
britzy: I got an early mark from College this afternoon so I decided to call my friend dameon to find more lane way art at the CBD.  Peri(pheral)scopes: Looking-over to the over-looked Heidi Axelsen, Hugo Moline and Adriano PupilliRogue ductwork is grafted onto the air-con shafts and drainpipes of Skittle Lane to become peri(pheral)scopes: giant optical devices looking out to Sydney’s western edge. The views presented are glimpses of places as only locals know them. We found some free maps from Central and headed to Skittle Lane between Kent and Clarence Street. It is a small inconspicuous lane way in between a convenient store and a bank, easily overlooked if not for the beaconing yellow periscopes.   the peri(pheral)scopes, peering out from the safety of the CBD, play on the way that the centre, when not completely ignoring the periphery, tends to view it only only as an object of curiosity, exotic, an oddity, variously because of its cultural diversity, nefarious going-ons, urban sprawl and sub-urban un-sustainability.  But there is more to these places than mostly bleak, sometimes bizarre picture painted in the headlines? What is it like to live your life there, on the edge? I thought the Forgotten Songs tugged my heart the most with the lost birds. But as a new resident of the Western side of Sydney, and hearing all the things being said when I tell people where I live, I feel a sense of support for the message being conveyed by this. True, it CAN be dodgy and shady, but theres so much more to the western suburbs than it’s nefarious residents.  More at Sydney’s Art & About festival website.

britzy:

I got an early mark from College this afternoon so I decided to call my friend dameon to find more lane way art at the CBD. 

Peri(pheral)scopes: Looking-over to the over-looked

Heidi Axelsen, Hugo Moline and Adriano Pupilli

Rogue ductwork is grafted onto the air-con shafts and drainpipes of Skittle Lane to become peri(pheral)scopes: giant optical devices looking out to Sydney’s western edge. The views presented are glimpses of places as only locals know them.

We found some free maps from Central and headed to Skittle Lane between Kent and Clarence Street. It is a small inconspicuous lane way in between a convenient store and a bank, easily overlooked if not for the beaconing yellow periscopes.  

the peri(pheral)scopes, peering out from the safety of the CBD, play on the way that the centre, when not completely ignoring the periphery, tends to view it only only as an object of curiosity, exotic, an oddity, variously because of its cultural diversity, nefarious going-ons, urban sprawl and sub-urban un-sustainability.  But there is more to these places than mostly bleak, sometimes bizarre picture painted in the headlines? What is it like to live your life there, on the edge?

I thought the Forgotten Songs tugged my heart the most with the lost birds. But as a new resident of the Western side of Sydney, and hearing all the things being said when I tell people where I live, I feel a sense of support for the message being conveyed by this. True, it CAN be dodgy and shady, but theres so much more to the western suburbs than it’s nefarious residents. 

More at Sydney’s Art & About festival website.

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