PUBLIC GOOD - itinerant responses to collective space

Edited by Paula Booker & Marnie Slater - Enjoy Public Art Gallery - $18

Public Good is a collection of critical essays, artists pageworks and prose pivoting around an exploration of the public sphere. Considering the increasing amount of funds and energy directed towards the commissioning of art sited within public space, and the continual civic development of the urban landscape, Enjoy thought it timely to attempt a collected discussion into the obviously political and forever elusive notion of The Public.

In gathering this collection, the editors began by asking both local and international contributors a series of questions:

In whose name is the term public used?

In place of the singular term, should we be interested in exploring the expanded, the fragmented, the specific, the multiple, the ephemeral, the places where our ideas of the publics and our experience of being publics co-exist?

Is Public, as Parisian artist Claire Fontaine says, now nothing but another word for order and an adjective to describe the audience?

The publication was made possible by funding from Creative New Zealand and is the first in a series of journals to be published by Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Level 1, 147 Cuba Street, Wellington.

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