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SEEING BEES

Dan Winters
April 2023 – June 2023
Hill Country Garden at Waterloo Park

With a sharp eye for the most minute details of honeybee anatomy, SEEING BEES features a series of large format images created using a scanning electron microscope. The exhibit allowed visitors to experience bees as they have rarely been seen before!

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Ghost Line X at Waterloo Park

April 15, 2023
Moody Amphitheater

Rolling Ryot presents Ghost Line X, an immersive sound and light experience.

Ghost Line X is a massive, 15-channel, immersive sound art project that investigates the creative potential of sound in motion.

This unique motion-through-space experience moves linearly from one channel to the next across fifteen large speakers arranged linearly across 300-feet.

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Creek Show

Since 2014, Waterloo Greenway has commissioned local artists to create site-specific, light-based art installations to help raise awareness about the ongoing transformation of Waller Creek and our new 35-acre urban park system coming to downtown Austin.

Artists explore different themes related to Waller Creek that range from history to hydrology and beyond.

Learn more about the artists and installations of past Creek Shows.

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Hurlyburly

Orly Genger
March 2016 – March 2017
Waller Creek at Lady Bird Lake

Presented in partnership with The Contemporary Austin, Hurlyburly is a massive outdoor piece of painted and hand-knotted rope that stretches across an area directly adjacent to the mouth of Waller Creek. Recalling the languid flow of the creek, the undulating, woven structure invites visitors to interact with each other, with the work, and with the surrounding parkland. New York City-based artist and designer Orly Genger creates organic forms and site-specific installations from painted swaths of woven rope, crocheting, weaving, and knotting heavy twine over the course of many months.

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Forever Bicycles

Ai Weiwei
June 2017 – May 2018
Waller Creek at Lady Bird Lake

Presented in partnership with The Contemporary Austin, Forever Bicycles (2014) consists of over 1,200 bicycles transformed into a playful, spectacular monolith of a sculpture. The title, Forever Bicycles, alludes to the Forever brand (Yongjiu) – a company based in Shanghai whose mass-produced bicycles flooded the streets of China during the artist’s childhood yet remained financially out of reach for many – but also suggests a globally utilitarian form of transport now disappearing as car culture becomes predominant. The conceptual premise of this series consists of several to thousands of bicycles assembled into a composition.

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New Monuments for New Cities

March 2019 – July 2019
12th St. & Red River St. at Waterloo Park

New Monuments for New Cities is the inaugural project of the High Line Network Joint Art Initiative, a new collaboration between infrastructure reuse projects in North America. This public art exhibition will travel across the United States and Canada throughout 2019. For the exhibition, five urban reuse projects that are part of the High Line Network invited five of their local artists or artist groups to create proposals (in the form of posters) for new monuments. Each participating location will produce an exhibition of the resulting 25 artworks specific to their site.

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