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Sydney artists Di Smith and Kelly Doley have staged wikipedia edit-a-thon’s in Sydney as part of their Sunday School project

Dennis writes: “Minto was built on the American model of social housing—putting people of low socioeconomic status together in poor accommodation where your indoor space is outdoors and your personal business is everyone’s business. Minto had something like 80 percent social housing. It gets such a bad rap: all the lead stories are about shootings or drugs or things getting set on fire. But there’s more to this suburb. I wanted to show a different side of it.”

Claire Bishop on the history of collective and participatory art.

“Masks are our visual style and a core principle of the group. We don’t want people to focus on us as individuals or biographies. We want people to look at us as an idea. It’s a principal [sic] of universality. We want people to think that anyone you see walking down the street can be a member of Pussy Riot”