Within Foundations (2012)
Site specific installation in Officer, Victoria | Beth Arnold & Sary ZananiriWithin Foundations (2012) is a site-specific installation, originally commissioned by VicUrban for Eastern Pocket Park for a new housing estate in the outer-Melbourne suburb of Officer, in the City of Cardinia by Beth Arnold and Sary Zananiri
Within Foundations is installed on Boonwurrung/Bunurong land, on what was then an open paddock as farmlands were giving way to new housing developments as a result of Melbourne’s urban expansion and suburban sprawl.
The form of the work was based on the floorplans and material palette of the neighbouring housing estates, and situated in a public reserve now known as Eastern Pocket Park. As Arnold and Zananiri note, Within Foundations ‘took a form that sat somewhere between a ruin and building site, designed as a space to sit or play. Landscaped into Eastern Pocket Park, Within Foundations referenced the great changes continuing to take place locally.’
A decade later, Building Foundations (2021-22) was commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art for Who’s Afraid of Public Space? as a response to the original installation. Building Foundations consisted of an intervention with billboard and community event at the site.
GROUP EXHIBITION: Who’s Afraid of Public Space collaborative participation with Beth Arnold in group exhibition, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, December 2021-February 2022WITHIN FOUNDATIONS was commissioned by VICURBAN COMMISSION - 2012related projects
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