Plants and Punk disrupt Sydney’s new Metro system

Through two new C3West projects, artists Lauren Brincat and Tina Havelock Stevens rethink Sydney’s new metro system as a Plant Library and punk jamming performance.
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Portrait of artist Tina Havelock Stevens with Adam Fawcett, photograph Anna Kucera.

In a new partnership with Landcom – the NSW Government’s land and property development organisation – the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) has announced two new projects in Western Sydney as part of the C3West initiative.

Both punch the practice of artists beyond the Museum into long-term community engagement, keen to draw greater attention to how artists, residents, infrastructure and community can creatively intersect. It’s a philosophy based on the idea that artists can bring unique value to place.

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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