Day 1 and three official hours into the competition, after finding our site, Miskom is gradually finding itself.
Our new home for the next 3 days is site 10. If you aren’t sure where it is, that’s because it’s waaay over the other side. About 30 mins walk from the workshop shed in fact. Our team leader may have called it the bitch site when receiving our site brief, but I think its true character is yet to be seen.
As the others talk about their initial reactions and our ideas for the space, I’m thinking about the stories for site 10. What are they and who do they involve? Overlooked by the still-incomplete second construction of the Melbourne wheel and bordered by an empty amusement park, a frozen skate rink and the entrance to Harbour Town outlet shopping district the site is still incomplete.
Mostly deserted on a beautiful sunny day, the site could feel eery…Maybe the park is haunted by ghostly children at night? Is the ice rink a chilly white elephant, not the winter institute the propaganda proclaims? How safe is the wheel? Perhaps the measurements are still out and tomorrow we’ll watch in horror as it topples towards us?
Or maybe on the weekends many people visit the ice rink to play hockey, to shop and ride the attractions happily.
What has happened that we don’t know? Our job is to heal the wound that disfigures the amusement corner, to graft the scar.
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