Project 5

Overview

Is art a spectator sport? Well, performance art points to yes. So does video art. So, in a slightly different way, do those openings that are kind of like the running of the bulls in Pamplona would be if everyone kept talking about some night they had hung out with the bull. And then there are events like this, where you see an artwork come together in front of you, from concept to completion. Street art seems to be particularly strong on this — possibly because of all the working quickly so as not to get caught by the cops — and off the back of the Secret Wars final we get the second Project 5 event.

Curated by aMBUSH gallery, Project 5 has lined up Brooklyn-based Brisbane boy Anthony Lister, stencil and paste-up artist of Melbourne laneway fame Meggs, Sydney portraitist and Oh Really!? gallery co-founder Ears and music industry illustration mainstays webuyyourkids, to make pieces in an improvised open-to-the-public studio over the weekend. Hooray for community engagement, right?

Speaking of which, the pieces that come out of the weekend's work are to be auctioned on October 14, with all profits going to Information and Cultural Exchange, a group supporting and promoting visual arts by young people in Western Sydney.

Image: Meggs