This Master’s project investigates themes of labour, care and environment through public pedagogy and institutional critique. This work consists of questions and reflections that have accumulated over two years, contributing to ongoing dialogues of countless activists, artists and academics before me. Urban mobility and safe accessibility are critical components of public art. Designed for consumerist, patriarchal civic engagement, I question the conducive design of public space.
Through walking, collecting, and sewing, I consider themes of care, gendered mobilities and access to public space. Through reading, writing and questioning, I critique the institution and the accessibility of knowledge-sharing systems. Through an exchange of flags in public space, this research critiques the concept of mapping and facilitates discourse with city. This project researches body as site and method, is situated in decolonial and feminist theories, and contributes to ongoing social and political discourse. Each work echoes the process of the other, plays with permissions and celebrates the unknown. Collaborative by nature, this research project is the result of a treasured, discursive method of making enabled by the Art in Public Space cohort.
