The Inequality Seesaw
Wood – $6,800.00
The Inequality Seesaw is a playful interactive installation that invites viewers to engage with the work in the way they might with a traditional seesaw, but with a twist that raises deeper questions about power, community, distribution and inequality. When viewers approach friends or strangers to work with them they can even out the balance, using ‘people power’ to seesaw successfully. The pokerwork text inscribes a well-known Māori proverb:
He aha te mea nui o te ao
What is the most important thing in the world?
He tangata, he tangata, he tangata
It is the people, it is the people, it is the people.
GoldFish Creative – The Inequality Seesaw
The installation is a playful reference to the inequalities that currently exist in the world, while reminding us of the power of people to band together to overcome these imbalances, and to create real and lasting change.