Studio Swine collected sea plastic to make chairs for The Sea Chair Project

 

Surface Tension: The Future of Water, Science Gallery Dublin, 2011 – 2012

Co-curated by Ralph Borland, Michael John Gorman, Bruce Misstear and Jane Withers, Surface Tension: The Future of Water brought together works by artists, designers, scientists and engineers exploring the future of water, its role in politics and economics, and ways in which it may be harnessed, cleaned and distributed. The exhibition was organised thematically around seven themes: drink, dirty, hidden, map, play, predict, reflect. Featured projects highlighted issues from water scarcity to ocean plastic pollution. Surface Tension toured to the Eyebeam Art + Technology Centre, New York, in 2012 and to the Kitchener Museum, Ontario in 2013 -14.

Photography courtesy of Science Gallery Dublin and individual artists

Science Gallery Dublin

Model of a trawler converted into the
Sea Chair factory
 

 

Advert for a fictitious bottled water company by Colin Hart
 

Water from a Dublin canal cleaned and offered to gallery visitors by Colin Hart
 

Bottled Waste, by Hal Watts invited visitors to supply the energy to produce a litre of either bottled or tap water
 

 
 

HighWaterLine Dublin by Eve Mosher mapped climate change by
drawing projected flood levels on the streets of Manhattan
 

Tsunami Stones by Ko Sasaki showed ancient markers of previous flooding
 

Smarter Water by IBM and Dublin City Council explored the management of Dublin's water infrastructure
 

Water Wear water pump by Kimmit Sayers, Brian Corcoran, Andrew Clarke and Lar Boland enabled visitors to experience firsthand the workload endured in many developing countries
 

The Problem with the PlayPump by Ralph Borland, analysed representations of the PlayPump, a children's roundabout which pumps water