Description
City of Melbourne’s Laneway Commissions 2008 – a season of contemporary artworks in the public domain – present six diverse projects in the CBD. Organisation for Future Good Steps is a sculptural intervention, veiled as architecture. It is a non-functional staircase that attempts to amplify the aesthetics of proximity while expounding the rigours of anxiety, distance and delirium. The artwork is a steel structure, connecting two buildings in narrow Niagara Lane. The staircase is missing several steps, railings and landings and has no clear beginning or end. Parts of the structure appear broken or disconnected from other absent structures. In stark, vivid white, the staircase does not lead to doorways or windows. Instead, it appears wedged, as though a consequence of some apparition, a site of drama. The artwork aims to establish and occupy a physical space while propagating the continuum of ascent and descent as rigorous, aesthetic and intellectual experiences. Artist: Raafat Ishak