Space Time Pavilion
Space Time Pavilion
A dynamic, immersive art experience and a flexible stage for activities and events, designed in collaboration with artist Michaela Gleave.
Location
Gadi Country South Eveleigh, NSW
Client
Mirvac
Completion
2020
Artist
Michaela Gleave
Collaborators
Event Engineering James Brown Fausto Brusamolino
Space-Time Pavilion is one of four major public artworks commissioned for the South Everleigh’s Innovation Plaza. The work considers space and time on a grand scale through the expression of innumerable symbolic journeys made to the site throughout human history.
Playful and euphoric, the mirrored ceiling of the pavilion acts as a live host; a central magnet for audience participation with visual effects mirroring the time of day, seasons, and ambient weather conditions. This ever-shifting reflection invites us to sit with the potent versatility of light.
Seven pillars support the ceiling, their size and location informed by the stars of the Seven Sisters star asterism. Modelled using a gravity simulator, the pillars create dramatic indents in the mirrored surface, distorting the reflections of activities underneath and providing focal points for imagination and contemplation.
Referencing the importance of celestial navigation to the generations of people who travelled to the site to live and work, the ground plane is scattered with twinkling stars and surrounding the pavilion is a multi-channel sound installation that emanates from speakers at the edge of the site.
Programmed to respond to real-time meteorological and astronomical data, the sound and light scape is created from a sequence of interweaving layers, using a generative algorithm designed never to repeat.
