The Lightbox Collective // Instillation Melbourne Fringe Festival 2010

Title: beati voi poveri. Live Artwork in various locations around Melbourne
Sculpture: David Rastas
Illustration: Hamish McWilliam
Photography: Miriam McWilliam

The Lightbox Collective are an international art collective currently based in Melbourne.
They are vigilant, streetwise and full of hope for safer and more beautiful streets.

They do not see the poor as a burden; not even the object of pity. They are unexpected jewels that remind us we are all one step away from poverty. beati voi poveri is a series of sculptures, illustrations, photographs and installations in unexpected locations around Melbourne that invite us to see our disenfranchised brothers and sisters in a new light.

The work deals with the collective’s experience living with the poor in Tokyo, Osaka, New York, Philadelphia, Milan, Munich, Paris and London. Suffering the same hardships as the most vulnerable people in the city, the Lightbox Collective (also known as the Bent Street Bandits) have performed, installed sculptures and built architectural environments in parks, subway stations, and on the streets of some of the most ‘liveable’ cities in the world.

Poverty frees people from ordinary standards of behaviour, eccentricities become more acceptable and clothes do little to cover up a naked soul.

http://www.melbournefringe.com.au/fringe-festival/show/beati-voi-poveri/