Critical Run Sydney

Critical Run Sydney is an art critique series with the purpose of campaigning to bring the widely acclaimed Emergency Room exhibition format to Sydney.

Emergency Room is an exhibition format created by Danish/French conceptual artist Thierry Geoffroy. Its purpose is to create a space where artists can contribute daily to current social debate. Free of proposals and waiting lists, Emergency Room allows artists to respond to todays issues immediately by providing a free space to exhibit.

Part of the Emergency Room format is a certain perfected system and savoir faire executed and taught to the collaborating artists by the ER staff. Punctuality is a keystone when the artwork of yesterday daily at 12.30 p.m. is removed from the Emergency Room to give space to the artwork of today. This ritual is called “The Passage” and is the central element of the constant changing Emergency Room. Some days 20 artist will turn up for the Passage, other days only 10. On rare occasions the alerting apathy of people is proven by nobody showing up. Other days the news of the day will start a storm of reactions from outraged or thrilled artists, creating a creative explosion of awareness to be witnessed by all the lucky visitors and media present at the time of the Passage. Here the true energetic symbiosis of the artist as representative of the public opinion is revealed and fed back into the media channels.

Critical Run Sydney are hosting a series of Critical Runs over the next couple of months. After the innaugral run over the Harbour Bridge last Saturday, they're repeating the format this Saturday afternoon on the timely topic: Is social media ruining our lives? They're meeting at 3pm at the corner of Oxford St and Crown St and running down Crown Street to Cleveland St, Surry Hills. Run starts at 3:30pm sharp.

For more information on Critical Run Sydney head to the Emergency Room website, check out the Critical Run Sydney facebook page, or email the Critical Run Sydney team at micromergency@gmail.com

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