THE much-debated Bunnies are here. This week the 2.5m glowing rabbits were installed on Perth city council’s Goderich Street affordable housing project.
Perth artists Kat Black and Jasper Cook split the PCC when it was approved last year, with Cr Rob Butler saying he wanted his name recorded as opposing it, “in capital letters”.
Cr Lyndon Rodgers and Judy McEvoy also twitched their noses.
“The bunny rabbits… do look cute, but my opinion is at the end of the day it’s not a creche,” Cr McEvoy said. “It’s not a kindergarten, it’s affordable housing.”
But Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi said, “there is no public art like [it] in WA and it is likely to become iconic on a national and international basis”.
It’s the first major sculpture commission for Black and Cook who describe themselves as “film nerd” VJs known for using archival dance film in their nightclub shows.
The PCC’s seeking tenants for its 48 apartments. It’s the first in the nation where a council’s built apartments to be rented out at 20 per cent below market price to lower income workers.
by DAVID BELL
Perth Voice Interactive 
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