Liquid Levels

2001


Jennifer Turpin & Michaelie Crawford

Liquid Levels

A precursor to the final artwork Storm Waters built on site at Victoria Park, Zetland in 2002, Liquid Levels, like the final artwork, sought to emphasize the function of the detention basin park. Three versions pursue a similar concept;

In a sunken form of park which itself could, in a one in 200 year storm event, flood to its brim up to urban street level, this artwork imagined the drama of such an event. Storm water, cleansed through biofiltration swales, falls down wide steps on all four sides of the detention basin park highlighting this dramatic potential to fill the park with water.

In another version water falls vertically down textured walls encompassing the whole park.

A third version is a stand alone water piece located at the street level at one end of the Victoria Park. Water flows down circular sloped dish to a lower central point then recycled. It too suggests inundation but as an artwork on its own, not integrated into the sloped sides of the park itself like the other two concepts.


location
Joynton Park, Victoria Park development, South Sydney
client
Landcom