TableTerrain
D’Arcy Newberry-Dupé, Emerald Wise, and Christopher Langton.
Designed, prototyped and produced by Unmake Studio with Christopher Langton
2023
Brunswick, Melbourne
Steel, PLA, Epoxy, Terracotta, Stone.
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D’Arcy Newberry-Dupé, Emerald Wise, and Christopher Langton.
Designed, prototyped and produced by Unmake Studio with Christopher Langton
2023
Brunswick, Melbourne
Steel, PLA, Epoxy, Terracotta, Stone.
A table, 8 metres in length, 1.2 metres in width.
The table is constructed from 3D printed biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA), coated in a water based, low VOC foodgrade epoxy. Custom steel forms a bracket around extruded 3D printed legs, that draw down from the voids in the surface. Hand built, stepped terracotta bowls inserted into the voids act as removable vessels, alongside permentantly inset stone plinths made from reclaimed offcuts of onyx, marble and terracotta pavers.
In its form, in its bodily tissue, it hosts the site upon which the Errol Street Residency’s various ritual event’s are to occur.
A body of landscape situated in the interior, rescaled and abstracted.
Across 8 metres of undulating pits, pools, platforms and ridgelines this abstracted landscape makes the surface – offering the places of extraction and consumption as vessels for digestion.
A very particular kind of Country is held in this body – six major open cut mine sites, and their denuded contexts are curated and compiled into a fictive terrain. These sites that make the whole, are scattered across the expansive territory of Australia’s extractive landscape, some still actively being consumed, others temporarily exhausted, several considered dead.
This unliving body, these ‘dead’ sites of extraction are captured and abstracted into matter – the physicality in the absence of the open cut, articulated in the stepped terracotta bowls that slice through the articulated horizontal plane.
The table is built in six segments, and is disassembled after use.
The table is constructed from 3D printed biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA), coated in a water based, low VOC foodgrade epoxy. Custom steel forms a bracket around extruded 3D printed legs, that draw down from the voids in the surface. Hand built, stepped terracotta bowls inserted into the voids act as removable vessels, alongside permentantly inset stone plinths made from reclaimed offcuts of onyx, marble and terracotta pavers.
In its form, in its bodily tissue, it hosts the site upon which the Errol Street Residency’s various ritual event’s are to occur.
A body of landscape situated in the interior, rescaled and abstracted.
Across 8 metres of undulating pits, pools, platforms and ridgelines this abstracted landscape makes the surface – offering the places of extraction and consumption as vessels for digestion.
A very particular kind of Country is held in this body – six major open cut mine sites, and their denuded contexts are curated and compiled into a fictive terrain. These sites that make the whole, are scattered across the expansive territory of Australia’s extractive landscape, some still actively being consumed, others temporarily exhausted, several considered dead.
This unliving body, these ‘dead’ sites of extraction are captured and abstracted into matter – the physicality in the absence of the open cut, articulated in the stepped terracotta bowls that slice through the articulated horizontal plane.
The table is built in six segments, and is disassembled after use.