Party Machines — Greg Creek

Political Machines are architectural-scaled, short-term paper-based works. Each is an installed network of dyed paper spans, where the strains, stresses and dependencies form a web of relations between parts and whole traced in space. These interventions into rooms and interiors are augmented with other objects and forms that counterpoint the presence of the spectator.

The works references political organisations, or party machines and the balance of tensions and forces struck within a self-supporting system. The drawings seek to express in real space a palpable sense of agonistic force and identity, of contending actions and objects, in which we, as citizens, play a part

Toilet paper, pigment, fixings; 183 transfer prints, mixed media on cut paper, contributed text each approx. 28 x 9cm; desiccated dog carcass, table

6th Party Machine is an installation of a network of dyed paper spans, furniture, framed artwork, diagrams, with an array of graphic effigies of Austrian Federal parliamentarians, presented with speech bubbles installed alongside the dried remains of a found animal carcass. Viewer experiences spatial event as fragmented political body by moving inside delineated space and contributing hand-written text as cartoon-like speech bubbles.

6th Party Machine (Dog Whistlers)

Kuntraumarcade, Vienna. September 2016.

5th Party Machine (AuGenblick)

Site 8, RMIT University. December 2013.

5th Party Machine (augeneblick), acrylic pigment, toilet paper, plastic fixings, print transfer, cut paper, contributed text, framed drawing, poster, table, pens