Hostile Infrastructure - Experience the world through a wheelchair
Hostile Infrastructure is a participatory art installation created by Perth-based artist Bruno Booth which allows people to gain some insight into a world that is still largely inaccessible to the disabled community. Producing feelings of rebelliousness, slight indignity, failure and amusement, the installation sheds light on the everyday difficulties that appear when navigating the built environment in a wheelchair. The official opening will be held on April 5, 6-9pm.
Venue: Testing Grounds
Address: 1 City Rd, Southbank VIC 3006
Date: 14 March - 21 April 2019
Time: 12pm - 5pm
Web: www.testing-grounds.com.au
Address: 1 City Rd, Southbank VIC 3006
Date: 14 March - 21 April 2019
Time: 12pm - 5pm
Web: www.testing-grounds.com.au
Hostile Infrastructure is a participatory art installation created by Perth-based artist Bruno Booth which allows people to gain some insight into a world that is still largely inaccessible to the disabled community. Producing feelings of rebelliousness, slight indignity, failure and amusement, the installation sheds light on the everyday difficulties that appear when navigating the built environment in a wheelchair. The official opening will be held on April 5, 6-9pm.
Participants are invited to wheel themselves down a long, narrow corridor, the walls painted with a subtle gradient that changes from hot pink to indigo as they travel through the work. The corridor is lit by neon lights that pulse slowly, changing the shadows and creating a colourful glow. As they wheel down the corridor the walls and ceiling close in making a smooth exit anything but certain.
The public community space at Testing Grounds is a forum for discussion and discovery, marking the perfect setting for the participatory installation. The high visibility of the artwork and Testing Ground's prominent location will give as many people as possible the opportunity to engage with disability and its associated concepts and constructs in a meaningful way.
The project is being constructed in part by RMIT interior design students on their first day of university as a mass build (in four hours) for Melbourne Design Week. Bruno will be on-site to help with the build and then utilise this existing structure to make his corridor installation.
Participants are invited to wheel themselves down a long, narrow corridor, the walls painted with a subtle gradient that changes from hot pink to indigo as they travel through the work. The corridor is lit by neon lights that pulse slowly, changing the shadows and creating a colourful glow. As they wheel down the corridor the walls and ceiling close in making a smooth exit anything but certain.
The public community space at Testing Grounds is a forum for discussion and discovery, marking the perfect setting for the participatory installation. The high visibility of the artwork and Testing Ground's prominent location will give as many people as possible the opportunity to engage with disability and its associated concepts and constructs in a meaningful way.
The project is being constructed in part by RMIT interior design students on their first day of university as a mass build (in four hours) for Melbourne Design Week. Bruno will be on-site to help with the build and then utilise this existing structure to make his corridor installation.