The third interactive telephonic cut-up by Inkahoots (QLD)

Inkahoots and the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts invites you to play with the final New Anthems.

The third interactive telephonic cut-up by Inkahoots offers Banjo Patterson for renovation. After rewriting Australia's official national anthem and Dorothea Mackellar’s poem My Country, pedestrians can now have a fiddle with the ‘other’ national anthem, Waltzing Matilda:

“And he _______ as he sat and _______ by the billabong”

New Anthems invites you to play with our foundational texts via SMS. Text 0430 547 035 to add your contribution. Simply enter a word or short phrase for each of the blanks separated by a comma (e.g. ‘firstword, secondword’ or ‘short phrase, another short phrase’).

It's the last chance to invent and critique expressions of national identity and contribute to the collectively generated public artwork. If you're in the neighbourhood, view the installation - a typographic sculpture constructed from recycled cardboard and fibre optic lights - on site at the Judith Wright Centre. Visit http://www.jwcoca.qld.gov.au/newanthems to see a list of real-time contributions.

From Architectural Review:

"While [participant's] messages are witty, topical and occasionally irreverent, the project itself should be acknowledged for it's own functionality, design acumen and deft grasp of the medium of interactive art... Visually the work is beautiful, arrestingly clear and intriguingly layered. The graphics are multidimensional and fluid without being wishy-washy, and defined without being obvious... While social content may be the driving impetus for the studio, and witty phrases the memory for the majority of viewers, the idea of New Anthems as an interactive portal for the voice of all is what makes this project so universally relevant. The only pity is that it isn't a permanent public artwork that drifts from one location to the next as a perpetual stream of conscience."

Until Fri 5 Mar 2010, 24 hrs
Shopfront, Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.