Hazardous Speculations

To complement the exhibition "A Contested Landscape" at Domain House during the 10 Days on the Island Festival, this series of images speculates on other days, histories, spaces and lives that may have occurred in the building.

Rather than a literal record of the building's chronology, the speculations are a reminder that, just like people, buildings have lives also with pasts and futures also.  

And character.

Domain House has been unoccupied for the last 15 years.  Through a process of personification, these images explore the building's history post desertion. If the building had been a person, we would say it had been abused.  There is evidence everywhere - flesh wounds, unsympathetic insertions, service penetrations, band-aids, and rotting fabric - this once grand building has been benignly disrespected and neglected.  The project references the violent colonisation of occupants throughout the building's history- picking up the the remnant scars of the unsympathetic changes with lurid hazard tape.

Cumulus Studio (in conjunction with Heritage architects Paul Johnston and Peter Freeman) have been commissioned by the University of Tasmania as Architects to start a healing process.