该装置由Yvonne Farrell和Shelley McNamara为2018威尼斯建筑双年展设计。游客透过重重门洞，仿佛经历了一场意大利到澳大利亚的往返旅行。
Our installation for Biennale Architettura 2018, curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, invites visitors to look through a series of portals that will transport them from Italy to Australia and back again.
▼装置外观，overall view of the installation ©Trevor Mein
装置的外观如同木制的六角风琴，外部缠绕着精细的钢架，令人过目难忘，吸引人们探索其中神秘的走道空间。这是一个用来观看的工具，五扇不同的“门”将观察者从威尼斯“传送”到澳大利亚，打破了上万公里的空间界限。
On first sight an impressive concertina structure of timber, overlaid with delicate steelwork, draws visitors in to explore spaces in between mysterious passageways. Five different ‘portals’ invite closer inspection and transport the viewer to ‘somewhere other’. The installation becomes an instrument for seeing, it extends beyond the confines of its place, to connect Venice with Australia.
▼如同木制六角风琴的外观，五扇不同的门，concertina structure of timber with five different portals ©Trevor Mein
▼木材外部覆有精细的钢架，timber structure was overlaid by delicate steelwork ©Trevor Mein
展厅原本是一座巨大而又昏暗的军械库。装置使用澳大利亚生长的斑桉，其颜色和气味让人联想到丛丛灌木。影像中丰富的声音以及设计师精心创造的地形让人们进一步沉浸在异国风情之中。五个门洞呈现了不同的景色，利用透视法和反射原理让空间显得更为宽敞，难以计数的参照物令人难以自拔，仿佛真的往返于威尼斯和澳大利亚之间。“威尼斯门”中设有一条圆锥形观景道，尖端朝外。一根巨大的亮橙色吹制玻璃管重新引导了人们的视线。另一扇门的灵感来自于面具，设计师融合威尼斯传统面具和澳大利亚传奇丛林居民Ned Kelly仅、有一条水平窥缝的铁头盔，创造出一些全新的体验。在这里，游客可以一秒钟到达诗人DH Lawrence所描述的“上下颠倒的世界底面”。
▼装置外观，圆锥形观景道，installation with a chrome cone ©Peter Bennetts
This vast structure’s sensory nature comes alive in the darkened atmosphere of the Arsenale building. The scent, colour and grain of native Australian spotted gum hardwood evoke the bush, while ambient sounds from mesmerising films combine with landscapes created by the practice’s works. A series of five portals frame views, playing with perspective and reflection to extend the space of the installation, with myriad references that enmesh Venice and Australia. The ‘Venetian portal’ features an embedded chrome cone that tapers outward. Beyond this an enormous mouth-blown Murano glass tube of vivid orange playfully redirects your view. Another portal is inspired by masks; the Venetian mask and legendary Australian bushranger Ned Kelly’s iron helmet, with its horizontal eye slit, to meld cultural references and create something new. In these ways, the visitor is transported momentarily “upside down at the bottom of the world”, as Australia was described by DH Lawrence, a quote that frames the dialogue within Somewhere Other.
▼透视法使的装置内的空间显得更为宽阔，extend the space in the installation by playing with perspective ©Peter Bennetts
▼亮橙色的吹制玻璃管重新引导视线，mouth-blown glass tube in vivid orange color redirect the view ©Peter Bennetts
▼影像和细节让人深陷其中，film and myriad references firmly grab visitors heart ©Peter Bennetts
▼木材细部，带来自然之感，detail of the wood material, bringing a feel of nature ©Trevor Mein
▼圆锥形观景道示意图，diagram of the chrome cone
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