The Centre
The Centre
Lake Margaret is evolving as The Unconformity’s experimental art site and social enterprise, helping to position the West Coast as a centre for personal, cultural and environmental regeneration.
The Centre for Generation and Regeneration represents an ambitious long-term vision of a collaboration between artists, cultural partners and industrial organisations, realised over time. The Centre will be develop through a series of projects, beginning with a series of artist residencies.
The first project ‘Pipe Dreams’, partnered Tasmanian experimental art group the Unconscious Collective with Sydney-based speculative architects Future Method Studio.
The second project ‘Manifesto”will bring together a multi-disciplinary team of six experimental artists to live and work together in a series of three 6-day residencies, with the objective of creating a collaborative work for presentation at the 2020 Unconformity.
Three international and interstate mid-career artists have been confirmed for the artist team, with three local early career artists to be selected via a callout in late 2019.
Pipe Dreams
Pipe Dreams
‘Pipe Dreams’ was an initial series of week-long creative development residencies at Lake Margaret in 2017-18, supported by the Australia Council. Artists in residence were David Patman and Michelle Boyde from the Unconscious Collective in partnership with Genevieve Murray and Joel Spring from Future Method Studio.
‘Pipe Dreams’ reimagines Lake Margaret as a post-industrial spa centre, with materials from the historic timber pipeline repurposed as hot-tubs and accommodation pods. The concept was presented to potential stakeholders and supporters for feedback during the Unconformity 2018.
Speculative eco-house redesign
Speculative masterplan - village and art site