9000 Minutes (2016)
“Part-endurance performance, part-community broadcaster, the work quickly became a feature of the market’s temporal ebbs and flows. Operating both as a mouthpiece for oral histories and as a source of comedic and musical entertainment, 9000 Minutes walked the finest of lines between profound respect for the site and its constituents and an incrementally absurd performative entropy”
- David Cross, Art Monthly
“The cacophony resumed once we made our way over to Field Theory’s countdown. Having slept, eaten, spoken, and lived in the space of the market for 6.25 days, you could sense both the frazzled exhaustion and the excitement at being able to finish in the air.”
- Sarah Werkmiester, Melbourne Public Art Lab publication
The conversations and encounters enabled by 9000 Minutes amounted to a shared celebration, exorcism, documentary and memorialization of the market and its place in the city’s collective imagination. The exhaustive nature of the undertaking was further manifested in the artists’ bodies as the marathon duration took its toll 9000 Minutes’ spurious, democratic, Quixotic cod-journalistic endeavour gave voice to the spirit of the market”
- Robert Walton, Melbourne University Head of Theatre VCA
