Why is it happening?
Open Space provides an opportunity for the selected artists to present new processes and works of contemporary art to local audiences. These projects will encourage an immediacy in approach and production. They will attempt to test new ways of working and interacting with public space. Temporary public works are often, by their very nature, more open ended, not seeking to answer questions, but rather pose them. As the American art critic Patricia C. Phillips puts it: “The point is not just to produce another thing for people to admire, but to create an opportunity – a situation – that enables viewers to look back at the world with renewed perspectives and clear angles of vision.”
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