Underland - rainy day waterfalls

Waterfall

When it rains the Collingwood Underground Car Park comes alive with the sound of water dripping and babbling through pipes. Being an underground space it has it's own unique ecosystem where at times plants and fungi can be found growing.

Underland - Livewires workshop

Flouro pipecleaners AKA chenille sticks being made into 'treasures'

Livewires is an after school care program for children living in the community. Laine Hogarty and Michal Teague ran a workshop with the children, asking them to make 'treasures' that will be embedded within the Underland labyrinth.

Underland - local character cars

A car with a hand made antenna map

Colourful character

The cars in the surrounding area reveal aspects of their owners personality providing another way to 'map' the Collingwood Housing Estate and its surrounding environment. The car above was painted during the Melbourne Stencil Festival.

Underland - mapping the towers and surrounding environment

During the progress of Underland Laine Hogarty and Michal Teague have been documenting the visible and invisible elements of the Collingwood High Rise estate community. Traces and items left by people.

Underland - the beginning

The site prior to construction

Artist Michal Teague, sweeping, sweeping, sweeping...

The scale of the Collingwood Underground Car Park provides a unique opportunity to create a site specific public artwork with the Collingwood Housing Estate community. The site is filled with multiple layers of imagery on the floor, walls and ceiling of previous artists interacting in the space, the graffiti in view in these images are from the Melbourne Stencil Festival.

Underland - Root made during early community pop up studios

Root made by community participant in the Collingwood Underground Car Park

In the development phase of what was to become the AURA Project, a series of artist pop up studios was funded by Yarra City Council. The pop ups assisted in devising what kind of projects might work with the Collingwood Housing Estate community. An initial interest in suspending artwork from the ceiling to emphasise the experience of being underground, developed into creating a community root system which could be walked through like a labyrinth.