By George! Hidden Networks
Background to the Project Submissions
The City of Sydney received more than 500 registrations and 68 submissions for this year's Laneways By George! Hidden Networks project to transform and explore the potential of City laneways with creative, innovative and inspiring high quality temporary artworks.
Eight exciting and innovative proposals have been selected by Curator and urban designer Dr Steffen Lehmann and the City's Public Art Panel. Each project focuses on collaboration, sustainability and the changing role of public spaces, and has been created by interdisciplinary teams including artists; architects, urban designers, landscape architects, and others such as musicians, poets,
a scientist and a lawyer.
The proposed Laneways By George! 2009 - Hidden Networks temporary artworks will now go through the DA process, if approved the works will be installed in time for the City of Sydney's Art & About event in October.
The installations are intended to remain in place from early October 2009 until the end of The Sydney Festival in late January 2010.
Seven Metre Bar
Team: Richard Goodwin, Adrian Macgregor; Russell Lowe
Underwood Street
7 Metre Bar celebrates inaction on climate change with a drinking bar built inside the detritus of our age of progress and capitalism. The work combines the landscape of weather and topography with the physicality of the architecture of a catastrophe and the technology of digital games.
PS: Potential Spaces
Team: Nesson Murcutt Architects, Freehills, Chalk Horse
Tankstream Way
Potential Spaces proposes to imbue the laneways with a more complex reading of the "invisible" legal framework and allude to the laneways possible future habitation. This project will apply a methodology that firstly involves undertaking surveys, chronicling the physical, legal and architectural characteristics and boundaries of the laneway, and will make these visible using interesting and playful markers.
I Dwell in the City and the City Dwells in Me
Team: Kim Bridgland, Adrian Hill, Aline Joyce, Theresa Schubert
Bridge Lane
A prosthetic skin shall be applied to the vertical surface of Bridge Lane, emerging from the old and worn brick wall. The prosthetic is an emulation of human skin; it is a harbouring of our own humanity. It includes an audio component, to further engage the viewer, emitting a barely audible heartbeat.
The Urban Barcode
Team: Maix Mayer, Damian Hadley, Tribe Studio
Abercrombie Lane
Part way down Abercrombie Lane is an enlarged diagram of the barcode of Jan Gehl's "Life Between Buildings" in white fluorescent tubes. In the ground plane the barcode of "Two or Three Things I know About Her". This proposal also includes a pocket size open air cinema showing movies about cities.
The Meeting Place
Team: Aspect Studios, Herbert+Mason, Derlot, Light 2
Little Hunter Street
The Meeting Place is a playful installation which encourages participation and interaction whilst heightening the experience of moving through the urban space of Little Hunter Street.
Family Unit: Chill Trailer
Team: Anne Graham, Duncan Bond, Rob Graham, Jasmine Liddane, Tony Bond, Jan Bond
Bond St
The Chill Trailer is an ongoing evolution, feeling it's way into the CBD environment in Bond Street, getting bigger and better each time it unfolds, creating a new social space in the urban jungle. Check out the program.
Forgotten Songs
Team: Michael Thomas Hill, Richard Major, David Towey, Richard Wong
Angel Place
An interplay of past, and present, large and small, predator and prey, Forgotten Songs engages audiences with the beauty, unexpectedness and unfamiliarity of displaced birdsongs. The installation explores how Sydney’s fauna has evolved and adapted to coexist with increased urbanisation.
Infinity Forest
Team: Matt Chan, Isabelle Cordeiro, Katie Hepworth
Penfold & Hosking Place
This installation interrupts the flow of people that move through the city daily, oblivious to the subtle changes in scale and grain as they walk; the people who cut through Penfolds Place to speed their journey from point to point encounter a brief moment of concentrated nature, contained in an intimate reflective room.
