About this event
How do 50 large foam blocks, wrapped in a cover of sandstone material, complicate ideas of democracy? Andreas Angelidakis’s
DEMOS, currently on show at UQ Art Museum, evokes elitist notions of the sandstone institution, while drawing on the foundations of Ancient Greek democracy. This form of democracy gave citizenship only to wealthy males, born in Greece.
DEMOS complexifies this by asking all citizens, residents, and visitors to engage with, advocate for, and discuss who has a say in the creation of their own
DEMOS structures.
Using
DEMOS as its basis, we unpack the state of so-called liberal democracy in present-day Australia, including the idea that democracy is inclusive of all people. Join experts Professor Katharine Gelber (Head of UQ School of Political Sciences and International Studies), Dr Glenn Kefford (ARC DECRA Research Fellow, UQ School of Political Sciences and International Studies), and James Blackwell (Research Fellow, Centr