Project outcomes
art & arch infinite
Presented below are projects created during 'art & arch infinite'.
Not for Sale
Participants: Cathy Smith, Dianne D'Alpoim Guedes, Chris Brisbin, Matthew Dixon, Ashley Paine
Contact Person: Chris Brisbin
Project Description: Real Estate Signages recoded to provoke social commentary
Theme - Critiquing our understanding of 'home', challenges the cultural value of commodified property
Site specific to houses & sites across West End
Turbo…T City Limits
Participants: Landscape Architects - Glen Challenor and Scott Harper, Architect - Mark Sciberras, Web Design - Ben Yee
Contact Details: evergreengiant@yahoo.com
Project Description:
Installation to combine natural reverberation from street traffic with a band performance
'Acoustic fins' installed along section of overpass. 'These fins reflect the acoustic rhythm of the vehicular traffic' and will be used by the band Evergreen to play a live concert.
Concert stage proposed under the Turbot street overpass
Surveillance
Participants: Artist -Cida de Aragon, Urban Planner - Phil Heywood, Sound Designer - Christine Mc Combe.
Contact Person: Cida de Aragon
Project Description:
Video projection / light boxes containing images of eyes accompanied with loudspeakers playing whispering voices
Site specific to Goodwill Bridge under central canopy, and tensile shade structure of the QPAC Cascade Court
Theme - surveillance and security inciting debate about it's cultural significance and relationship to visual art
Work in collaboration (with) esp in art or literature
Participants: Artist - Dirk Yates, Architect - Michael Banney
Contact Person: Dirk Yates
Project Description
Construction of steel scaffold frame outside City Hall
Spatial re-invention to challenge 'identity and the politics of space'
Analysis of how people view, describe or respond to environment
Openings in the framework address democracy / regulating individual movement
Scribble
Participants: Artist - Marian Drew, Building designer - Simon Laws
Contact Person: Marian Drew
Project Description:
Sprays of water projected across the Brisbane River from the banks of South Bank (Clem Jones Promenade)
High pressure pump to draw water up from river
Watery sounds and strobe lighting to accompany the water projections
Sub-Cultures
Participants: Student Architect - Joseph Adsett, Graphic Artist - Andrew Harwood
Project Description:
Critiques Brisbane's eclectic music culture
Plywood constructed box supporting five pipes
Site specific to Brunswick Street Mall
Round the Edge
Participants: Yee Jien, Wei Jien
Project Description
Site specific to Post Office Square CBD
Visual escape from urban terrain of CBD
Nodes for sitting, screening
State Change
Participants: Architect - Tomas O'malley, Artist - Kate Kirby
Project Description
Ice blocks melting, into constructed chamber or tank acting as a screen
Theme Crossovers & interdisciplinary collaboration
Site specific to Picnic Island South Bank parklands (private, intimate location)
Dynamic structure that represents the human memory & subconscious
Movie Booth
Participants: Artist - Michael Littler, Architect - Michelle Wright
Contact Person: Michelle Wright
Project Description
'Classic movie theatre booth appropriated from post war period autonomously placed'
Site; 'External courtyard area on mezzanine level, linking Queensland Art Gallery & Queensland Museum, corner of Grey & Melbourne Street'
Theme; 'increasingly commodified nature of contemporary public space and the economic control of public space'
The Conspiracy
Participants: Architect Student - Tanya Mathers, Art Student - Nathan Corum
Contact Person: Tanya Mathers
Project Description
Screen of Perspex with Alien motifs as backdrops
Site specific to Cultural forecourt at South Bank parklands
Theme - 'what is truth and what is fiction?'
Postmarked
Participants: Artist - Michelle Vandermeer, Architect Marissa Lindquist
Contact Person: Michelle Vandermeer
Project Description:
Site specific to GPO alleyway between Queen St & Elizabeth St
Photo booth to be installted, photos of individuals added to billboard collection
Pedestrians to slow down and take time to look at each face
Photos could be further used on stamps
Urban Press
Participants: artists - Allan Tulloch, Architect - Esther Charlesworth
Contact Person: Allan Tulloch
Project Description
Letters formed from clayed mined from south of Brisbane
Letters 'discovered' on the sand under the palms on the site of 'Streets' beach at South Bank Parklands
Picture Perfect
Participants: Architect Student - Emma Termont-Schenk, Art Students - Sarah Nesbit, Amie Batalibasi
Contact Person: Emma Termont-Schenk
Project Description
Location; front of 'Streets' beach, South Bank Parklands
Theme; people and Public Space
Frame to create a viewing space, also addressing issues of image, using mirrors to reflect the 'viewer'
Dining Room
Participants: Artist - Simone Eisler, Architect - Andrew Steen
Contact Person: Simone Eisler
Project Description
Theme - people and Public Space
Location - Underside of Queen Victoria Bridge, South Brisbane
Chandelier like or a streetlamp to be suspended from under the bridge.
Drawing from historic elements of the previous Victoria bridge to design lamp
Irony of lamps message of "opulence and wealth" in an 'underbelly' area
Weave
Participants: Artist- Belinda Smith, Architecture student - Anna Rabba (BVN), Interior Designer, Amanda Shea
Contact Person: Belinda Smith
Project Description
Experimentation in basket weaving
'Loom' to be site specific to 'Old Turbine Bldg' Powerhouse New Farm
Concept of 'Loom', 'Warp' and 'Weft', patterns creating texture and form