10 things Sydneysiders crave most in their lives

In a new artwork, the humble vending machine gives you a little more food for thought than the average snack.
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Intangible Goods takes the humble vending machine and fills it with all the unspoken psychological and emotional needs of our consumer-driven lives. Presented by Art & About Sydney, the artwork aims to bridge those tricky conversations around mental health. Visitors can purchase snackable, bite-sized pieces from the vending machine.

‘Each intangible good is designed to elicit a different emotional response, depending on the good you pick,’ said local artists Mark Starmach and Elizabeth Commandeur. ‘We live in a society where, for most of us, our physical needs are largely met. Yet increasingly our emotional and psychological lives go unfed.’

To create Intangible Goods, they worked with mental health professionals and surveyed over 600 people to unwrap what Sydneysiders felt were missing in their lives.

The key question this survey probed was this: ‘What do you need most in your life right now?’

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