Sydney Contemporary, in partnership with Barangaroo Delivery Authority, have unveiled three works by Contemporary visual artists who have created site specific works that will sit throughout Barangaroo’s financial, retail and dining precinct in the lead up and during the Fair from the 20th August – 24th September.

Monument #32: Helter Shelter by Callum Morton is a piece of temporary minor architecture, akin in scale to a bus shelter or a parade float. Half of the shelter bears the unmistakable characteristics of Donald Trump rising out of the ground and the other half forms a space for seating and cover from the weather. This voiceless, hollowed out, fun fair head, that reminds one of the famous Luna Park entrance across the harbour, conscripts the image of the current American President to play a role in our everyday lives by providing a place to rest and be protected.

Mel O’Callaghan presents Breath repertoire, 2018, a breath-work performance for Sydney Contemporary, 2018 activating the public forum at Exchange Place, Barangaroo. A rhythmic breath repertoire, performed by dancers of Sydney Dance Company’s Pre-professional Year 2018 and musicians Clare Cooper and Verna Lee, is choreographed by the intersecting lines of the forum and accompaniment of a percussive harp. Considering the rich history and contemporary significance of the Barangaroo site, Mel O’Callaghan asks how a poetry of the body in highly urbanised space might play out, informed by the primal breath as an elemental form of knowledge and knowing.

Cameron Robbins’ Remote Sensor, 2018 works to make tangible the underlying structures and rhythms of natural forces. Using his wind-powered drawing instruments on site, Robbins’ installation transcribes the invisible energies of nature, the wind, and light to create drawings, photographs, and moving image works along the foreshore of Barangaroo.