This work was produced after an Australia Council Residency in Tokyo in 2002. This work marks a shift in my practice from a formal sculptural practice that engaged with materialism and the politics of form and space into a installation and photographic practice that was engaged primarily with ideas, landscape, politics, memory and power.
Occupation, 2002/2003 was shown at the 2003 Artrage Festival, Iaspace, Hong Kong and at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2004 where it now resides in their permanent collection.
Occupation examined the relationship between Australia and Japan post WWll and the way politics and ownership shift and change. This work explores the changing spaces of Tokyo's homeless population that came about after Macarthy and his systematic changes to Japan's economy and social system.
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