Parko Techni 2018, Temporary Public Art @ Sydney Olympic Park

Enjoy six new public art installations that respond to the unique spirit of the Park.

Parko Techni 2018 is a site-wide collection of six new temporary public artworks by artists who have been invited to respond to the Park’s unique character. 

• Lumiform’s Ember is an immersive light installation that evokes an awareness of natural ephemera and the cycles of growth and renewal that surround us every day.
• Khaled Sabsabi’s large format projection, more than, elegantly combines images drawn from the site’s architectural structures with elements of the Park’s extraordinary environmental diversity (this artwork is viewable at night time only).
• Gary Deirmendjian’s drop and drape are a duo of minimalist, highly site-sensitive rope interventions that draw their form and meaning directly from the Park's architecture - Olympic Park train station (drop) and the sky bridge linking the Commonwealth Bank buildings across Park Street (drape).
• Emma Anna’s Architecture for Birds, a series of freestanding timber totems in Jacaranda Square, emerges as a cluster of abstracted birdhouses, and acknowledges the role birds place in city life.
• Eggpicnic’s Here and There pays homage to the migratory shorebirds that cross the world to spend their summers in the Park, and also celebrates our new pedestrian link between Australia Avenue and Bicentennial Park. (coming end September)

For more information about the artists and their works see here. 

* featured images - courtesy of the artists:
drop 2018; Gary Deirmendjian. Here and There; Eggpicnic. Architecture for Birds; Emma Anna.  

1. Ember, Lumiforms (Jonathon Bolitho, Harry Hock)

2. 'more than', Khaled Sabsabi

3. drop, Gary Deirmendjian

4. drape, Gary Deirmendjian

5. Architecture for Birds, Emma Anna

6. Here and There, Eggpicnic