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Installation

MELBOURNE WATER

Status Completed

Location Melbourne / Victoria / Australia

Team Room11 / Jack May / Rachel Ang / Maurie Novak / Shlomit Rubinstein / Harley /

Photographer Aaron Roberts

As part of the State of Design Festival 2010, Room11 were commissioned to produce an installation which would encourage visitor participation and create a space for the reflection on the nature of water, the future of water and our personal relationship with it. An immersive field or volume of water was hung within the exhibition space. The field offers an abstracted visual and tactile experience of water.


Made up of thousands of hanging test tubes, each tube is filled with water and a singular strip of colour coded paper containing text from a greater narrative. The “whole” explores issues relating to the creation of a water friendly future city in both a humorous and serious, factual manner. The tubes were seen as modern day fortune cookies, each denoting a fact or future prediction. Tubes were plucked from the field like fruit or petals, the field eroding over the period of the exhibition.