Angela Goh, The Concert (2022), moving image, 40:00 (film still). Commissioned by the Sydney Opera House. Image courtesy the artist and Fine Arts, Sydney.
Sometimes, objects are so imbued with memory and meaning it is hard to discard them.
‘It was during lockdown when there was nothing on and there was no one in the building – just security people and some construction workers – it was totally weird,’ Goh tells ArtsHub.
‘An artefact is something from a different time that shows up and provokes our imagination. It is not only a thing, but a springboard into imagining who we have been, who we are and who we might become,’ she says.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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