About Context is a body of work that was made during a three month Residency in Melbourne [November 2005- January 2006], to make art work for an exhibition titled Uninhabited Territories, at WestSpace in March 2006. Within this body of work I continued my exploration of issues to do with value in culture through engaging with The Melbourne Museum, a cultural history museum. Inside the Melbourne Museum, in the section titled “Australian History”, there is an authentic kitchen-set from the Australian soap opera Neighbours. Part One of my exploration of aspects of cultural value in Melbourne included a performance in this set, where I symbolically clean the museum display. Photographic documents of this performance were made in to a series of post cards that mimic the publicity postcards issued by the Melbourne museum. These postcards were distributed in Melbourne for the duration of the exhibition. In some ways this could be understood as an exploration of existing cultural values.
About Context: Part One