Our experience of the world is becoming ever more mediated by the artificial, the virtual, the plastic... Where else but in Tupperware does the semiotic meet the domestic in a consumer icon with as many different meanings as people who appropriate it?
Throughout the course of a day, distinct populations colonise the Station space: the commuters, the travellers; the buskers, the beggars; the homeless, the station workers; those simply seeking the atmosphere of a place in perpetual transit, ...and us, just ‘observing’ and overhearing - closeup and at a distance - trying to make sense of this daily ebb at the City’s heart.
At lunchtime on the 9th of November 1960, renowned African-American singer Paul Robeson gave an impromptu performance, for the workers on the construction site of what was to become the Sydney Opera House.
