Rosie Isaac : Bathtub Analogy

Conduction is thrilled to re/present Rosie Isaac’s performance-lecture ‘Bathtub Analogy’ on Saturday the 15th of February, at 8pm 

Bathtub Analogy is a performance lecture about altered plant growth, landfill chemistry and quarrying at the Darebin Parklands and across Naarm/Melbourne. The lecture is structured like a fasciated sheoak leaf, accumulated cells growing in a twisted spiral. A cycle of images from the site and archives are played on loop to form and reform relationships with the lecture text. The performance runs for 35 minutes. 

An installation of litmus test-prints “tip tests” will be installed in Conduction during the week, for the presentation of this performance, and available for sale. 

Bathtub Analogy spirals out of the artwork “total dissolved solids” presented at West Space in 2024 as part of “Stranger Than Fiction”, and was presented at the Stranger than fiction Symposium, co-curated by Helen Grogan and Joanna Kitto. 

Tickets are $10 unwaged, $20 waged, free entry for First Nations. Light hospitality included.

Access: no Auslan interpreter, but print outs of the text will be available to read along with the performance. A range of seating options will be available. Lower sensory space available to use. Air conditioning will be used. See full access information on our previous posts and our website. 

Image: Rosie Isaac ‘fasciated sheoak’ 2024. Design: Debris Facility. 

This project was supported by Maribyrnong City Council’s “Creative Places Program” @artsandculturemcc