The Cone Project

1999

Devised by Katy Bowman, The Cone Project combined installations, interactivity and roving performance. It appeared in various public spaces in Melbourne's Southgate arts precinct. Claiming the area as their laboratory, Questors in white coats set out to investigate the proposition that the only constant in life is change.

The Cone Project appeared weekly over a six-week season for the Victorian Arts Centre’s Winter Program.


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People in white coats, red trousers and tall cone-shaped black hats, free-standing 2-metre green foam cones and standard orange plastic roadwork cones
Two 4-metre cones on paved area, a Questor sitting inside one and an interested onlooker
two performers inside two tall, slightly crushed silver cones
three tall crushed silver cones one bends, one bows, one kneels
photo of icecream cones
a text about the symbolism of cones