Finnish artist gets friendly with furry things

The remote WA region of Esperance is the site for an innovative work that sites technology where you would least expect it.
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If the setting seems distant to Australians, it is nothing to the distance that Finnish artist Tea Mäkipää travelled to site her project Business Hotspot among the white beaches and rugged peaks of Cape Le Grand National Park.

Mäkipää has spent the past two months in the small community on lower Southen Coast of Western Australia developing a public artwork for spaced 2: future recall,  an exhibition that will spin out of 12 individual residency projects across remote and regional Western Australia.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina