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Sydney Morning Herald
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Fed Square has an underground secret. Now visitors can take a peek
To get to Federation Square's hidden bunker, you have to head through a staff-only doorway, enter the rabbit warren of underground corridors below the square, pass a control room, cleaner's store room and recycling bins and then descend two floors. The concrete bunker, known as 'Slot 9', which is 50 metres long and runs between two train lines in the labyrinthian underbelly of Federation Square, is normally off limits to the public, but it will be showcased as part of this year's Rising festival. Slot 9 does have a door that accesses Flinders Street Station, but unlike Harry Potter's fictional Platform 9¾, the bunker does not sit between train platforms nine and 10. It will be open to the public for the first time since before the pandemic for an immersive public art experience by artist Jason Maling called Diagrammatica. Maling wants to transform the bunker into a space where it seems as if time and sound bend and systems of meaning shift and evolve. Loading Participants in the artwork must head down into the bunker and put on white overalls, shoe covers and eye protection. In small groups, they will create living diagrams using objects and parts in the bunker. These will be livestreamed into Federation Square's Atrium. Maling says that when he was looking for a space for the artwork, staff at Federation Square suggested Slot 9, which was being used for storage. 'They showed me down here, and I thought, 'This is perfect,'' he says. 'It's a space which is between two train platforms, which I think is an architectural sort of anomaly. It was a space they probably didn't know how to use … it's almost shaped like a submarine, it's a weird lightless zone.'
The Age
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
Fed Square has an underground secret. Now visitors can take a peek
To get to Federation Square's hidden bunker, you have to head through a staff-only doorway, enter the rabbit warren of underground corridors below the square, pass a control room, cleaner's store room and recycling bins and then descend two floors. The concrete bunker, known as 'Slot 9', which is 50 metres long and runs between two train lines in the labyrinthian underbelly of Federation Square, is normally off limits to the public, but it will be showcased as part of this year's Rising festival. Slot 9 does have a door that accesses Flinders Street Station, but unlike Harry Potter's fictional Platform 9¾, the bunker does not sit between train platforms nine and 10. It will be open to the public for the first time since before the pandemic for an immersive public art experience by artist Jason Maling called Diagrammatica. Maling wants to transform the bunker into a space where it seems as if time and sound bend and systems of meaning shift and evolve. Loading Participants in the artwork must head down into the bunker and put on white overalls, shoe covers and eye protection. In small groups, they will create living diagrams using objects and parts in the bunker. These will be livestreamed into Federation Square's Atrium. Maling says that when he was looking for a space for the artwork, staff at Federation Square suggested Slot 9, which was being used for storage. 'They showed me down here, and I thought, 'This is perfect,'' he says. 'It's a space which is between two train platforms, which I think is an architectural sort of anomaly. It was a space they probably didn't know how to use … it's almost shaped like a submarine, it's a weird lightless zone.'
