A laboratory-style installation that allows you to try samples sourced from various regions in Australia.
Artist: Janet Laurence
This artwork was temporary and is no longer at this location.
Artwork description
H2O: Water Bar is a reflective, glassy glistening installation by Janet Laurence that allows you to sample a variety of water sourced from diverse regions of Australia.
Outfitted like an apothecary or laboratory, H2O: Water Bar is set amongst the heritage industrial space of the Paddington Reservoir Gardens’ inner chamber, opened to the public especially for this installation.
Australia’s identity is forever tied to our relationship with water, from the waterholes used as weapons during the colonial era to the long droughts that affect our regional communities and the environmental threats to the future of ground water. By inviting you to experience the qualities of different Australian waters, H2O: Water Bar helps us to better understand the complexity and fragility of this vital resource.
Alongside the Water Bar is a series of diverse talks, discussions and performances.
H2O: Water Bar will be the hip new watering hole that’s got all of Sydney talking – so join in the conservation conversation.
Artist
Janet Laurence is a Sydney artist whose international practice examines our physical, cultural and conflicting relationship to the natural world. Janet is the Australian representative for the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference exhibition.
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