Art

In 2008 Dan Cass joined DAMP, one of the oldest and best known contemporary art groups in Australia.

In 2009 Dan made Yet (2009), a collection of found objects placed in custom acrylic boxes for 'The End of The World Souvenir' shop project at Head Quarters gallery, during Melbourne Design Week.

Since 2008 Dan has been working on Planet.Art, a campaign to reform the model of periodic international art exhibitions such as Documenta and the Sydney Biennale, to take account of global warming both curatorially and logistically.

These experiences and networks provide a basis for {missing page}, which is a new approach to building power for firms in the clean energy sector.

What is DAMP?

An essay on DAMP published in 2010 describes the group as "one of Australia's most successful artistic collaborations" and is "known for its playfully provocative actions, and projects that revel in the expansion of art's parameters".^

DAMP was formed by students at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1995. There are 12 current members.

Artistic approaches like DAMP's have been described as 'Relational Aesthetics', in a book of the same name by Nicolas Bourriaud, who is Gulbenkian Curator for Contemporary Art at Tate Britain.

^ Francis E. Parker, ‘DAMP : untitled and indefinite', The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, (Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2009), 79.

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