Treatment III - Public Art Project
Treatment III is the third installment of an adventurous public art project developed by Public Art Commission through Deakin University in conjunction with Hobsons Bay and Wyndham City Council, Melbourne Water, the West Gate Neighbourhood Fund and Scienceworks.
The third chapter of this ongoing series will take place across 2023 and looks to capitalise on the success of the 2015 and 2017 public art projects held at the Western Treatment Plant (WTP), Werribee. The project uses contemporary art practice in its myriad forms – performance, video, installation, sculpture, sound, photography – to investigate and celebrate the technologies, histories and communities of the wastewater infrastructures in Melbourne’s west.
A project designed to celebrate the unique features, communities, technologies and ecologies of the WTP site, Treatment III will for the first time expand beyond the Western Treatment Plant (WTP) to make work along the historic Main Outfall Sewer (MOS), which runs for 30km from Spotswood to Werribee. The diversity of the communities and landscapes from Scienceworks (the old pumping station) to Werribee afford the opportunity to investigate important issues like public health, our connections to the environment and relations with each other. These works will unfold with an expanded range of partner and support organisations including Hobsons Bay City Council and Wyndham City, Greening the Pipeline, Scienceworks, and the West Gate Neighbourhood Fund. Staying true to the project’s foundations, Treatment III will also feature commissions at the WTP site together with an event proposed for the Western Treatment Plant from 21 to 22 April 2023.
Program dates: 17 March to 28 April
Digital program launch: 17 March
Opening event at Scienceworks: 5 April
Treatment | Night + Day event: 21 & 22 April
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Treatment III received funding from the Victorian Government through the West Gate Tunnel project's West Gate Neighbourhood Fund. This project is supported by Hobsons Bay City Council, Wyndham City, Melbourne Water, Scienceworks Museum and Greening the Pipeline.