Parliament was hung this week. 650 chevrons of blue (Conservative), red (Labour), yellow (Liberal Democrat), green (Green) and grey (Other) bunting now surround the beautiful ornate double stairway at the Harris Museum. Tenneson and Dale would like to say a big thank you to curator Claire and technician Tony for your kind assistance.
Once the work was up, I was surprised to see that although the 200 plus metres of bunting are brightly coloured, they have integrated into their surroundings in an unexpected way. The work does not look like artwork (despite the Frank Stella reference), but looks instead like a marker of some institutional event: a seasonal council function or official do of some sort. People were walking up and down the stairs past the piece without seeing it at all – I quite like that… it accidentally reflects both society’s general lack of interest in politics, but also how close to home political decisions always are (whether we realise it or not).
