Interloop in the media — radio and podcast interviews, 2017–18

Following the December 2017 opening of Interloop at Wynyard Station, the work was covered across a range of radio and podcast programmes — from ABC Radio Sydney to a Melbourne-based podcast dedicated entirely to the cultural history of escalators.

The interviews below each take a different angle on the project: the competition process and installation intensity, the material and conceptual thinking behind the work, its place in the daily life of hundreds of thousands of commuters, and the unlikely story of an escalator enthusiast who flew to Sydney specifically to see it.

ABC Radio Sydney 702 — Robbie Buck with Chris Fox

Tuesday 5 December 2017, 8 mins

Recorded on the day of Interloop's public unveiling, Robbie Buck speaks with Chris Fox about the competition brief, the conceptual and material thinking behind the work, and the intensity of a 48-hour installation window.

2SER 107.3 FM — Eleanor Harrison-Dengate with Chris Fox

December 2017, 10 mins

Eleanor Harrison-Dengate speaks with Chris Fox about the origin of the project — the heritage interpretation brief built around Wynyard's retired wooden escalators — and Fox's approach to working at the boundary of art and architecture. The conversation covers material thinking, engineering, and what it means to make work that sits in the daily path of hundreds of thousands of commuters.

ABC Radio Sydney — Jess Ong with Chris Fox

Saturday Afternoon program, December 2017, 12 mins

Jess Ong speaks with Chris Fox on ABC Radio Sydney's Saturday Afternoon program about the escalators as objects — the pause they create within movement — and how that quality became the conceptual core of Interloop. The interview also covers the engineering and fabrication process, and the challenge of working at one of Sydney's busiest stations.

People Movers Podcast, Lindsey Green with Chris Fox Episode 7: Escalators and Art,2018, 15 mins

Lindsey Green — host of People Movers, an independent Australian podcast about the cultural history of escalators. The conversation traces the history of Wynyard's wooden escalators through to the Transport for NSW heritage interpretation competition that led to Interloop, and covers the development of the floating sculptural form and the compressed 48-hour installation.

NAVA: In Conversation — Esther Anatolitis & Penelope Benton with Chris Fox

Episode 26, 2019, 40 mins

Esther Anatolitis and Penelope Benton of NAVA speak with Chris Fox about Interloop and the broader conditions for public art in Australia. The conversation moves beyond the project to examine the value and role of art in public space, the challenges of navigating competing stakeholders and institutional agendas, and what needs to shift in public art policy and delivery for artists working at this scale.