Sebastian Henry-Jones
On Enduring Structures and New Commitments at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
I have written this piece because I believe in words and their careful organisation as carriers of sincerity. I believe that contemporary art institutions like the MCA have the potential to show us what a vastly different future may look like and, in doing so, render the action of social transformation irresistible…As one friend said to me when discussing the merits of this undertaking: 'We should critique institutions we care about – how else will they grow with us?'
(Note on access: there is an audio recording of this essay.)