CROSS-REFERENCE

Cross-Reference continued a series of interventionist works, which addressed the public, private and transitional aspects of both the gallery space and other public spaces. The defined architectural boundaries of the gallery site were ruptured through an open door, which not only exposed an external environment but also provided alternative access to the internal exhibition.

As participants of the Big Day Out music festival appeared to examine the gallery, its art and its audience, the gallery public also experienced an unexpected view of the music festival and its audience. The work not only inverted the space of the exhibition but the uncertainty created between the artwork/viewer is literally mirrored between the exhibition/external public space. The juxtaposition of two disparate sites and the simulated interaction between the participants of these sites aimed at disrupting preconceived expectations of specific cultural and social contexts and the way in which audiences are conditioned to interact and participate.

The work consisted not only of the projection located in and beyond the gallery wall but as a temporal public sculpture within the Big Day Out site. A scale model of the gallery inclusive of miniature art and audience was positioned within the festival; the festival audience viewed the contents through a miniature doorway whilst there interactions were recorded through a camera mounted within. The location of this sculpture and its unexpected presence within a music festival context, fulfils a similar objective too the gallery based work: that is, to disrupt the formal and participatory conventions associated with specific cultural and social experiences.