It is these kind of details that will bring life to the project for Shane. ‘Then the Laverton women would belt the Cororoc boys with umbrellas as they ran out to take the field!” he reveals. He has heard that when Cocoroc played Laverton, the Laverton women would create a sort of guard of honour for the Hereford players. He has delved into local legend and met many of the past players. But back in their day they were an impressive outfit they had one heck of a home ground advantage,” Shane says. ‘The Cocoroc Herefords merged with three other teams to form the Werribee Tigers. The goalposts have been refurbished and white lines will be marked out again for the first time in half a century. In preparation for the match, Melbourne Water has let some cows loose they’ve taken the top off the grass. Visitors will be able to smell the Deep Heat and hear the coach through the paper thin walls and a game will be played by performers on the now rabbit-holed ground. But they are being renovated for TREATMENT as part of the installation. ‘Makes you wonder how many times he got to sing it, I suppose.” Right now the clubrooms stand lonely, paint peeling, empty. He played 258 games for the mighty Herefords, but he can’t remember the words or the melody,” Shane says. ‘I’ve spoken to one of the champions of the club. In particular he is looking for the club song. He has commissioned and taken delivery of 18 guernseys for his 18 ghosts of football past.īut he is still searching for information. The artist has located a manufacturer that still turns out knitted kit. The Herefords’ colours were red with a big white ‘V”. His research for On the Outer has uncovered some wonderful detail that is leeching into this promenade performance. ‘It’s amazing what people can flush down the system.” Shane grew up on the terraces of Victoria Park. ‘Word has it, the women of Cocoroc were some of the most bejewelled in Victoria,” says Shane. Shane will unpack the rich tradition of the once great Herefords who played their last game on the well-fertilised Cocoroc ground in 1964. It combines two of the most interesting words in the English language and provides an awesome starting point for his work in TREATMENT an installation entitled On the Outer. He should trademark this descriptor immediately. He describes his work as aesthetic disobedience.
But the remaining footprint is now little more than a few outbuildings, a community hall, two empty swimming pools, a bluestone water tower and the ubiquitous football ground. Visitors to TREATMENT will view the works from buses.ĭeakin University has worked with Melbourne Water and the City of Wyndham and the Wyndham Cultural Fund to rekindle the life of this town for a few days in November.Ĭocoroc was once a thriving community with schools, shops and recreational facilities and, of course, a football team.
Make no mistake, the scale of this thinking is mammoth. The art projects will be laid out across the 10,000ha facility and intend to draw on ‘the rich diversity of geographical, technological and cultural histories of the former Metro Sewerage Farm”. Their intervention is aptly called TREATMENT.Ĭurators David Cross and Cameron Bishop have invited artists Catherine Bell, Bindi Cole, Megan Evans, Shane McGrath, Techa Noble and Spiros Panigarakis to build ‘a place-responsive artwork that is experienced sequentially via a coach tour across two Saturdays in November 2015”. Today there are scant reminders of the lives that were lived, but some artists from Deakin University are planning to bring them back into existence. There was a school and shops and a swimming pool. They were engaged in a variety of essential jobs, all related to processing the waste from Melbourne.
The inhabitants were employed by the Melbourne Board of Works. ‘Cocoroc” means ‘frog”, but it is the name of a now abandoned settlement where 600 people used to live. Inside this facility there are acres and acres of heavy industry and acres and acres of secret history and a place that was called Cocoroc. I won’t go into detail to explain why and what they do, but when you drive past on the freeway you know you’re near Werribee. THE Melbourne Water Treatment Plant is an essential service.
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