Reading this will change your personality

The Strip in Kings Cross was packed to overflowing last Friday evening with ‘art-fuelled mayhem’. Internationally successful artist Anthony Lister staged a two-hour installation in a vacant hole-in-the-wall between strip club Dreamgirls and Porky’s. The location had been kept secret until just before the show.

The major work in No win sitch was a life-sized figure made of wood and cloth, puppet-like, slumped back on a lounge watching a TV. Its face was blank white. A hidden projector within the TV threw a moving face onto the figure, producing the surreal impression of a person whose personality is created by the media being consumed. Media saturation and its effect on our culture is one of Lister’s central themes.

Organisers say the venues were pleased to host the exhibition in the vacant space which until recently had been a money exchange.

by Michael Gormly