As part of Liverpool Biennial artist Koo Jeong was commissioned to design the UK’s first glow in the dark wheelspark known as Evertro. This new permanent structure is now open for skaters and BMX bikers to use in Everton Park.
Since February 2014, Koo Jeong and a team of designers from Wheelscape Skateparks have been working with young people in Everton, North Liverpool and Liverpool city skaters to devise a new wheels park. In addition to Evertro, the Everton Park Action Sports HUB also incorporates a training area and BMX track.
This commission is part of a long-term commitment by Liverpool Biennial to work in Everton Park. The wheels park and Everton Park Action Sports HUB will be managed and maintained by The Land Trust, in conjunction with their community partners, Friends of Everton Park. This is the flagship project of a citywide scheme initiated by Mayor Joe Anderson and funded by Liverpool City Council to design and build five wheeled sports parks in Liverpool.
In 2012, Koo Jeong A designed and built OTRO, a glow-in-the-dark skate park in France. In Everton, the artist has been working closely with the City Skaters community and young people to devise the wheels park, which will be made with luminous concrete to give it a glowing effect.
Koo Jeong A is known for her minimalist art installations. Since the early 1990s, the artist has worked in various media, making works that are seemingly casual and commonplace, yet at the same time remarkably precise and considered. Koo Jeong A often incorporates objects, still and moving images, audio elements, as well as stench within site-specific environments.
Major solo exhibitions of her work include: Koo Jeong A: 16:07, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf (2012); OTRO, Centre international d’art et du paysageIle de Vassivière, Vassivière (2011); Constellation Congress, Dia, USA (2010); Koo Jeong A, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2008); amongst others.
For this project, Koo Jeong A and her team have worked on an incredibly complex and unique design, to realise an exciting skateable wheels park for Everton. The artist is working collaboratively with Wheelscape Skatepark designers on the production and construction of the project.
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