Barangaroo Hyperart Thomasson

Discovered this wonderful Thomasson elevated amongst the layers of history at Barangaroo.

You can also see the sign for The Hungry Mile, an informal name harbourside workers gave this docklands stretch of Hickson Road during the Great Depression. Maritime workers would walk from wharf to wharf in search of casual, low-paid day work to feed their families. Quite simply, if they failed they went hungry.¹

‘Hyperart Thomasson’ refers to a useless relic or structure that has been preserved as part of a building or the built environment, which has become a piece of art in itself. It is a type of conceptual art named by the Japanese artist Akasegawa Genpei in the 1980s.²

1. Wikipedia contributors. (2021, December 11). The Hungry Mile. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 08:54, April 20, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Hungry_Mile&oldid=1059696465 [↩]
2. Wikipedia contributors. (2021, October 6). Hyperart Thomasson. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 07:56, April 20, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hyperart_Thomasson&oldid=1048518780 [↩]