The Rings of Saturn - Rory Maley

Opening Times

Friday 8th August 6pm-9pm (Opening Night )

Saturday 9th 11am-4pm

Thursday 14th 11am-4pm

Friday 15th 11am-4pm

Saturday 16th 11am-4pm

Artist walk/talk

Sunday 17th 11am

Meet at the end of the 59 tramline in Tullamarine.

Where is the inter-zone in our Australian cities? How do we define the border between the suburban and industrial, the urban and rural? Microcities grow in deep suburbia and their freeways and bike paths beeline through limbo zones as they make their way into the CBD. Sound walls obscure their hazy borderlands, farms separate shopping centres and trainlines cut through freight yards and chemical plants. Could the inter-zone be where cars start to be parked on the median strips? Could it be where backyards have no fences and dogs run loose? On the edges of Springvale are small farms, mainly herbs and leafy greens, minutes’ walk from houses in Altona are gassy landfills and chemical swamps. Navigating these zones reveals hidden paths, tangled easements, forgotten parks and decaying infrastructure. Camp in the gap where the trainline jumps the M1, step over the neglected fence into Tullamarine’s dumping paradise, crawl into the tunnels which move yabbies and collect silt under Clayton. Observe Melbourne’s outer circles as a nexus of disorganised planning, detritus and vulnerable waterways.

The Rings of Saturn investigates the suburban and transitional industrial landscapes of Melbourne, presented as a series of diagrams, installations, a published book and a guided walk through Tullamarine.