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Future Wagon
w/ Phillip Adams
Installation & Performance Art
NGV, Melbourne

Future Wagon envisions an uncanny nomadic home of tomorrow.

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Phillip Adams
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Future Wagon
w/ Phillip Adams

NGV Melbourne Now

This is not a high-tech caravan project for a family of four rather the pursuit of an anachronistic and ‘unidentifiable’ symbol on wheels. The project speculates upon our future inhabitant’s roaming street address and value of material decor.

The outcome is constructed from ‘do-it-yourself’ materials and amalgamates numerous wandering references from stagecoaches of the wild west, gypsy caravans, regal carriages, Buckminster Fuller’s dymaxion car to homemade billycarts and shopping trolleys of the homeless.

Materials: powder coated steel pipes, galvanised steel ‘guinea-pig’ wire mesh, trapezium white reflectors, cuttings of clear PVC carpet matting, skylight domes, multipurpose plumbing hose, clear shower curtain rings, nylon white cable ties, true blue garden hose, cobweb brooms and moving trolleys.

Exhibited as 'Future Wagon Taxidermy' in Sampling The City: Architecture In Melbourne Now (Incubator Room), The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

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'Future Wagon Taxidermy' in Sampling The City: Architecture In Melbourne Now
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PRACTICE PROFILE
IAN MCDOUGALL
ARCHITECTURE AUSTRALIA
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CategoryInstallation & Performance Art

Location National Gallery of Victoria

StatusCompleted

Year2013

CollaboratorsPhillip Adams

PhotographyIgor Sapina

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