PROJECT: BESTOWED is a socially engaged project by Cynthia Schwertsik. It explores the burden of unwanted gifts and the social and practical complexities involved in their bestowing, receiving and discarding whilst experimenting with rituals of disposal as a public service. Bestowed asks people to engage in conversation about objects they have been given that they also no longer want to keep. It aims to unravel the complexities and expectations of gifts that they may want to get rid of but have not felt comfortable to do so or found the right way to part with. Till now!

LOCATION: Adelaide Hills

Check out the project on Cynthia’s Thinking Through Things website HERE.

Bestowed is a new work commissioned by OSCA as part of our Projects of the Everyday initiative

Dates

Across 24/25

Project Artists

ROSINA POSSINGHAM

CYNTHIA SCHWERTSIK

Project Partners

Arts South Australia
Creative Australia
Creative Partnerships Australia

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Our mission is to provide artists and non-artists with opportunities to create contemporary works that explore local ideas and new way of coming together in the public domain.

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