Wireless House (2006)

proposed for City of Sydney’s ‘Glebe Point Road Public Art Project’, 2006.

Site: The ‘Wireless House’, Foley Park.

Built in 1934, the ‘Wireless House’ was equipped with a crystal radio set audible through the apertures of the structure. Although a popular meeting place for Glebe residents and the unemployed, the service was terminated after a short time, after a government official declared that sitting around all day was not in the public interest and that the ‘Wireless House’ encouraged indolence. I proposed to reinvigorate the ‘Wireless House,’ transforming it from a redundant curio into an active element of the local community’s cultural milieu.