A L E X G A W R O N S K I

Fixing a Hole

Alex Gawronski, Fixing a Hole

Colour SD video with sound (projected) approx 16 mins

‘Sydney Buries Its Past’, Tin Sheds, the University of Sydney, Australia. Curated by Maya Stocks

In a financialised economy, the dearth of real production has provoked the exponential inflation of real estate markets globally. Such manufactured property inflation is in fact a key feature of financialisation that artificially bolsters national GDPs everywhere. Over the past twenty years or so, this mechanism has been very apparent in Sydney. The footage compromising this video I filmed during the 2007 demolition of the University campus adjacent to Fisher Library to facilitate the construction of the New Law building complex. Fixing a Hole brings home, in an overtly site-specific manner, the politics of erasure and reconstruction as far this process has rebuilt beyond recognition, many areas of the city including that on which the Tin Sheds stands.