Bigger, Bigger, and more Desperate
New Works by Gareth Bate, Marcia Huyer, and Karen Kraven.
Curated by Colin Kent and Joanna Sheridan.
“Bigger and bigger and more and more desperate” is how architect/theorist Rem Koolhaas characterises contemporary public art. The phrase seems to more accurately, however, describe contemporary architecture, which Koolhaas himself has criticised as arbitrarily iconic. Since in our own arts community, or at least in Yorkville and the Grange, we have pursued desperate architecture with as much fervour as any commercial oligarch, it is time to openly wonder what kind of competition it is we wish to join.