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Sky Castle

This is a past event

Dates

14 November 2020 - 22 December 2020
Daily
7:30am - 11:30pm
FREE

Venue

Main Square

Access

Lift access
Wheelchair accessible

Getting There

After every storm, there’s a rainbow…

Sky Castle, a creative partnership between Fed Square and ENESS, has breezed into Fed Square to celebrate blue skies ahead. And due to popular demand it’s been extended.

Sky Castle is a dreamy, interactive sound and light installation, featuring a cluster of inflatable arches that span in colourful symphony across Fed Square.

As people  move through the arches, their movement powers and progresses the melodic xylophone soundscape and stimulates colour changes in each arch – evocative of the joy and hope that rainbows bring after every storm.

*Sky Castle has now concluded*

About ENESS

Founded in 1997, ENESS has been commissioned to produce and install artworks worldwide for signature commercial buildings; urban and cultural precincts; festivals, galleries and museums of modern art.

ENESS is more than a studio, it is a mindset. A belief in the power of providing art in everyday life that fires the imagination; that provides joy, happiness and beauty in unexpected places – transformational experiences that change lives. ENESS produce permanent sculpture; temporary art installations; interactive design outcomes; and artful play equipment.

ENESS has pioneered the art of 3D projection mapping and interactive real-time motion tracking, breaking new ground and creating firsts that have since become accepted design solutions. Their work has been exhibited worldwide in museums of modern art, to the streets of Mumbai.

ENESS is distinguished by a multidisciplinary team of creatives including artists, writers, musicians, software engineers, industrial designers and thinkers.

  • All visitors to the square will be asked to scan and enter their details into a tracing system
  • Sky Castle is 100% outdoors – visitors do not enter an interior space
  • Sky Castle is activated and interacts kinetically (via movement, not touch) and security will be in place to ensure visitors refrain from touching the installation
  • Security will be in place to ensure visitors follow social distancing requirements while exploring the installation

Check our Instagram or Facebook stories beforehand – if it’s taken down for the day due to inclement weather, we’ll announce that there. Enjoy!

Please maintain social distancing of 1.5m, wear face masks indoors and outdoors if you are unable to stay further than 1.5 metres away from people not in your household, and practice good hygiene. Details submitted via the QR code will be retained for 28 days. Personal details are only shared with corresponding Health Authorities should they request them. The Department of Health and Human Services current restrictions for Victoria must be adhered to. Victoria Police can issue on the spot fines for individuals and/or businesses that fail to comply with current restrictions. For more details please refer to https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/victorias-restriction-levels-covid-19. If you are experiencing cold or flu-like symptoms, fever, cough, sore throat shortness of breath please do not enter Fed Square. 

View our COVIDSafe plan here.

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