A playground for the arts
Big skies.
Deep time.
New possibilities.
WHAC imagines ambitious art shaped by this place: appearing in fields, across salt lakes and within the everyday life of the Wheatbelt.
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WHAC imagines ambitious art shaped by this place: appearing in fields, across salt lakes and within the everyday life of the Wheatbelt.
01 / The place
Location: 30.8936° S, 116.7132° E // Wongan Katta
Operational radius: Salt plains / Discarded voids / The atmosphere
Two hours North-East of Perth lies one of the hardest working towns in Australia. It is a place defined by the sound of the wind whispering through the hills. This is Wongan Katta — The Talking Hills.
Wongan Hills Arts Co. Ltd. (WHAC) is building a playground for the arts where none existed. Our venue is not a gallery; it is the town site and its visceral surroundings. It is a landscape shaped by big skies, deep time, and an ever-changing display of colour and texture. We don’t just “place” art; we facilitate site-specific interventions.
We work with artists to create sculptures, installations, and sensory experiences informed by the land’s history and its inevitable future. WHAC operates across salt plains, inside discarded buildings, underground, and in the air.
02 / The intensity
Some of it will be so loud
it hurts to look at. Some of it you won’t even
notice is there.