Highlights from press releases

• "The privilage of bing there, and the threat of missing out."
• 'Here today, gone tomorrow'
• Contemporary arts changing relationship to questions of time, space and place; spectacle and event; performativity and deration; and the logic and unfixing of monuments and public memory.
• "one day sculpture has expanded New Zealands notion of art and where you might find it."
• A type of event which celibrated New Zealands history and its land.
• "Publicart works which got people wondering. After all isn't that what arts all about?"
• "It makes you pause, then the course of your whole day is altered"
• The audiences were mystified, amused, oblivios, dwellers, threatend, unerved, frustrated, surprised
• The works ranged from the noticable to the barely noticable.

The works ranged from thenoticable to the barely noticeble.

David Cross said:

"If you go for lots of marketing, you're going to diminish that opportunity to have a fairly unmediated engagement with contemporaryart practice.... even if that lack of mediation leaves people bewildered."

which migh explane why the only marketing for ODS i could find was the poster. He goes on to say:

"maybe thats the nature of contemporary art-our experience of it is always to some extent fleeting. We're never fully aware of the context. maybe that creates space for the imagination, rather than us having to close the meaning of the work down by dotting all i's and crossing all the t's."

"The event altimitly asks the question: what is sculpture?"

Clair Doherty said:

"We normaly understand pubic sculpture to be monumental, commemorative, permenent, but its also about space and how its placed in itssurroundings."

"This is a research project" she goes on to say, "and as with a lot of research you dont know what your outcome will be."

"The idea of what sculpture is and what contemporary art object - making is will continue to expand."

The event included works which reflect a dynamic diversity of artistic approches, from object - based sculptures and installations, to performance and temporary interventions across the urban environment.