• Michael Rakowitz, White man got no dreaming, 2008, installation view in the 16th Biennale of Sydney 2008 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, drawings, salvaged building materials, video, radio transmitter.
  Courtesy the artist and Lombard-Freid Projects, New York.
  This project was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Dena Foundation.
  Photograph: Jenni Carter
  

Michael Rakowitz often works collaboratively to create forms of ‘social sculpture’ that address social problems through personal encounters and stories in which poetry and pragmatism meet. For the Biennale, Rakowitz responds to contemporary Indigenous life in Australia and creates new associations with the history of visionary architecture and its failures, and with the collapse of narratives of revolution. In collaboration with a number of individuals and groups, Rakowitz has constructed a full-scale contemporary version of avant-garde Russian artist Vladimir Tatlin’s model for Monument to the Third International (1919). Tatlin’s tower, which was to have been made of spirals, was never built; today, it is a symbol of revolutionary and visionary thought. Rakowitz’s Tatlin tower, White man got no dreaming, is a rebirth of collective hope, as it recycles discarded materials from old houses, soon to be demolished, owned by the Aboriginal Housing Company in Redfern, Sydney.

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Michael Rakowitz
Scheme 23A, 2007
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Live News Tickers, 2007
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Endgame, 2008
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