Watering Hole
Date: 2016
Medium: Sound sculpture and public intervention
Materials: Plastic tank, water, mirrors, speakers, pipes, and custom audio. Dimensions: Above Ground: 19’ x 15” x 17” Below ground: 32” x 19” x 19”
Installed at ZK/U, The Center for Art and Urbanistics in Berlin, Germany.
The term “watering hole” refers to a natural body of water where populations go to drink and is also another word for a pub. In urban environments, bodies of water are often man made and have a role to play for transportation, recreation and ecosystems. I’m particularly interested in the behavior of man made bodies of water within urban environments, especially the psychological connection with the aesthetics and sound of water. Watering Hole is a sculptural intervention alluding to the form and function of a well although the existence of a water source is, in this case, an illusion. This work looks at water as a metaphor for the needs of a population and as it operates in the hydrosphere, through the creation of a constructed body of water for aesthetic interaction.