Felix Herbener

TO DARK MOFO 2016 STREET ARTISTS Regarding open-access community art walls: legal graffiti spaces. I think the respected artists involved in this colab should join forces together with the Gods of MONA (and anyone else who supports the arts) to petition the Powers That Be to establish legal graffiti walls (for everyone, all ages) in Hobart, particularly the northern suburbs. What does Die Laughing Collective say to this idea? [...] That's exactly what I'm suggesting: get the permission of private property owners (eg: K&D Warehouse, Derwent Park) and the support of Council/s (eg: site maintenance, the provision of Youth Workers) together with Police approval... to allow all artists and young people total freedom of artistic expression (within reason) at the legal art wall/s site/s. I think it is time to advocate for this approach again. I believe that Hobart's street artists, if united and organised collectively, are sufficiently empowered to make this idea real...

DIATRIBE TO UTAS About how impossible it is to get a locker in Arts and everything that is wrong with UTAS : Nola of Arts Student Central has instructed me to go to Social Sciences Administration on Level 5 Social Sciences and ask "Are there any lockers available in this building?". Campus Services has instructed me to get a New User Form for the Online Works Request system signed by my Head of School. (I don't know who that is). Then submit it to Campus Services for consideration. (before I can even make the actual work request). Nola insists the lockers are being used because they have padlocks on them, so she is certainly not going to assist me to have the lockers opened. How do I deal with that kind of logic? I don't know. Basically I don't know what will happen when I go to Social Sciences Administration on Level 5 Social Sciences. But if past experience is anything to go by, I will not get reasonable answers. I am rarely o...