Liz Cotter has displayed next door. A spur wheel, worm drive, air cock and diaphragm valve. These are Ambiguous Objects from the disused CSR site in Pyrmont. Anne Graham, Peter Emmett and Les Mansom have reassembled the CSR site cooling tower above an uplit pool occupying the glass box which projects from the museum s north-east corner. By perching a racing skiff on the otherwise unusable terrace, Richard Goodwin parodies the docking of a ship with the land and, at the same time, the use of otherwise unusable areas on the waterfront.
Tents are also part of the construction, suggesting the transient sculpture of the harbour .
Projected onto the blank north wall of the Museum of Sydney after dark is a ghost of the harbour shoreline. Harbourings is about the felt experience of industrial land between water and settlement. It puts on show the raw material of the harbour. It explores the factors that have shaped the Sydney waterfront and possible ways to understand it and remake it. This exhibition has set in motion a debate fundamental to Sydney Christopher Procter is Deputy Director Design at the City of Sydney.