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PROJECT TITLE: 7mBar LOCATION: Underwood St, Sydney, Australia CLIENT: City of Sydney Council PROJECT TEAM:Adrian McGreogor [McGregor Coxall], Richard Goodwin & Russell Lowe PROJECT TEAMDESCRIPTION An outline of theProject Team, its activities and key personnel roles Interdisciplinarydiscourse and debate is crucial to the creative process. The project team isconstituted from three disparate disciplines, Richard Goodwin - public art, Russell Lowe -digital gaming/architecture and Adrian McGregor - landscape architec- ture. Collaborative by design, the team sharesroles and responsibilities across the project todistribute the project tasks. Richarddrives the installation logistics having produced publicart projects for over 30 years, whilst Adrian’spublic space design experience groundsthe outputs and Russell’s digital capabilities stretch the physical boundaries. The team recently completed the SurrogateTrojan installation for the back to the futureexhibition in Newcastleand were awarded the exhibition prize. CONCEPT PROPOSAL Today 2/6/09it was reported that the oceans are becoming more acidic. This is yet another in a series ofmarkers on the road to irreversible damage of our environment. When the oceansreach a certain point in this cycle all life within the water dies leading to death on such alarge scale that the decaying bio-mass will create a future store of liquid oil equal to thestores we have burnt. The cycle is thus completed and we as humans may not survive. So do we raise thebar? Do we build a bar? Do we measure thebar? At an elevation of7 metres the bar marks a reading of possible worst case sea level rise at the turn of thecentury. At 8 meters Underwood Streetwill be underwater with tidal surges and the flotsam and jetsam of ourcivilisation. Cars, boats, building materials and bodies will be tangled within its columns likeseaweed at the edge of beaches. Our proposal for Underwood Streetcelebrates inaction on climate change with a drinking bar built insidethe detritus of our age of progress and rampant capitalism. Its’ door mat isthe marking of contours from circular quay, along Pitt Street & into the lane. These identify thenumber of people across the globe displaced by each 0.5m increase in sea level. The barresponds to visiting crowds and their collective inaction with the force of virtual weather.This weather projected through digital beamers and broadcast through sound speakers inthe installation builds in its ferocity as a response to increasing num- bers. Harnessingthe power of computer gaming engines a digital replication of the street will unitecomputer imagery with filmed reality to create an atmosphere of confusion and excitement.Participants will see and feel the consequences of their inaction. At what point dowe raise or lower the bar? The bar is areaction to our progressive drowninguntil at 75m depth, Sydneyto the Blue Mountains isswallowed for all time as the North & South polar icecaps dissappearentirely. This installationis a place of questions. It is interactive as a place of drinking andentertain- ment andinteractive in the intensity of the message each participant takes home. As a collaborationthe work combines the landscape of weather and topography with the physicality of thearchitecture of catastrophe and the technology of digital games.
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