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Knowledge is Power
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posted on 2023-05-25, 11:46 authored by Sierra, M'Knowledge is Power' is a sculptural/spatial installation work that deals with the idea of knowledge, power and ignorance. Comprised of six elements - old encyclopaedias - that have one word each cut straight through their centre (knowledge is power / ignorance is bliss) in cursive script, each book was placed on a bannister plinth at the stairwell landing of two separate stairways at either end of Domain House, and old school building. As the viewer ascended the staircase, they read the statement 'knowledge is power' (or while descending, 'power is knowledge') one book at a time on one staircase, and 'ignorance is bliss' (or 'bliss is ignorance') on the opposite staircase. The work questioned the location, formation, containment and distribution of knowledge, and with each book open to an image specific to its individual word, the pedagogical methodology of rote learning and the paradigm of massified education. Domain: A contested landscape
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InstallationDepartment/School
School of Creative Arts and MediaPublisher
Domain: a contested landscape, Exhibition, Ten Days on the IslandExtent
3 mixed media site-specific installations, 13 April - 28 March 2013Event Venue
Domain House, Queens Domain, HobartDate of Event (Start Date)
2013-03-13Date of Event (End Date)
2013-03-28Rights statement
Copyright 2013 The AuthorRepository Status
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