FUTURE WAGON, NGV MELBOURNE NOW, 2014 © Igor Sapia

FUTURE WAGON

Synopsis  

Future Wagon envisions a nomadic home of tomorrow. This is not a high-tech caravan project for a family of four rather the pursuit of an anachronistic and ‘unidentifiable’ symbol on wheels. The project speculates upon our future inhabitant’s roaming street address and value of material decor. Where will we live and what will our homes look like? The outcome is constructed from ‘do-it-yourself’ materials and amalgamates numerous wandering references from stagecoaches of the wild west, gypsy caravans, regal carriages, Buckminster Fuller’s dymaxion car to homemade billycarts and shopping trolleys of the homeless.

Creative Team

Artists: Phillip Adams and Matthew Bird (Studiobird)

IAN POTTER CENTRE

MELBOURNE NOW

2013-2014