Wastewaster pipes at Cocoroc - Wadawurrung Country
‘Old Boundary Road’ is a multi-channel sound installation which sonically resonates a line of large steel pipes, spares from the Melbourne wastewater line from Narrm-Wurundjeri Country to Wadawurrung Country. Using high-powered transducers, sonic textures from the periphery of the Treatment Plant crackle and resonate through infrastructure at the site of the previous Cocoroc township.
Listeners are invited to walk through, stand in and listen closer to the sounds of place, modulating and overlapping resonant frequencies, tones and textures emerge as they shift across the pipes, resonating both inwards and outwards, reflecting on our listening positionalities with the surrounding land.
Treatment III is the third installment of an adventurous public art project developed by Public Art Commission through Deakin University in conjunction with Wyndham City Council, Melbourne Water, the Westgate Tunnel Authority, Scienceworks and Hobsons Bay City Council. The third chapter of this ongoing series will take place across 2023 and looks to capitalise on the success of the 2015 and 2017 public art projects held at the Western Treatment Plant (WTP), Werribee. The project uses contemporary art practice in its myriad forms – performance, video, installation, sculpture, sound, photography – to investigate and celebrate the technologies, histories and communities of the waste water infrastructures in Melbourne’s west. Artists include Anindita Banerjee, Edwina Stevens, Eugenia Lim, Fiona Hillary, James Nguyen, Linda Tegg, Mick Douglas, Peter Burke, Robert Andrew, Rogue Academy, Zanny Begg, curated by Cameron Bishop and David Cross.
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