Taps, valves, pipes, pumps, sprays, and leaks come together to form a chaotic, yet playful water machine full of games and puzzles, all fed by a central reservoir. But there's a twist: Hydropunk is also a striking environmental metaphor. With only 1000 litres of water to work with, once it's gone, it's gone! To keep the fun flowing, participants must work together to conserve and recycle water, engaging in a constant challenge against waste and leakage.

 

​The core idea is the creation, with the public, of a site responsive gravity-fed water ‘machine’ over the course of a day whose purpose is simply to deliver water from one place to another. The performance will be predicated on a series of problems, the chief of which is that the supply of water is finite (as on Earth), requiring the water to be recycled for progress to be made.