White chalk on the façade of New South Wales Gallery/Museum of Modern Art, Sydney 2008
Sydney Biennale 2008
Curator: Carolyn Cristov-Barkagiev
By the time I had reached Cockatoo Island however, I had changed my tune somewhat from, 'If I can't dance I don't want your Revolution,'

to the revolutionary Socialist anthem 'The Internationale,' performed by the emotive, politically charged voice of Susan Philipz.

This initial point is articulated by the work of Dan Perjovschi whose pictorial lexicon executed in chalk on the gallery walls, defaces and critiques the institutions and vernacular of modernism with its singular narrative, as well as the superfluosness and apathy of commodity culture. In this work, the writing on the wall portrays an image of a Molotov cocktail that references the Paris riots of May '1968' juxtaposed next to a bottle of Coke Zero that reads '2008.' Che Guevara's iconic pop cultural incarnation is commoditized on a T-shirt that dissipates into aboriginal swirls, 'Free speech' is articulated within a bubble of barbed wire with precipitous spokes, and the underside of an awing on the neoclassical pediment reads 'I am not exotic, I am exhausted.' Other images inscribed on the neoclassical facade with its grandious entrance and formidable columns include stick-figure businessmen conveyed as puppets on government strings, as well as the working man crushed dead under the weight of his own mortgage. While disembodied arms flex the mighty muscles of modernism, postmodernism is construed within the same paradigm, as part of the same body politic.
(Anna Briers, New Zealand Monthly, September 2008)

You can read about this eveniment in: Time Out Sydney / Issue 35: July 9 - 15, 2008