Tributary Encounters

Audiences are invited into encounters with the material, ecological, historical and cultural legacies that shape Narrm/Melbourne’s waterways. The resilience of the waterways and resistance to colonisation and extractive practices will be revealed by bringing attention to the intersections between submerged, channelised and remnant waterways. Guided by the Tributary Project team, this walk will provide the audience with a range of ways to connect with waterways through deep listening, physical movement and an introduction to the creative processes used by the Tributary team to deepen site knowledge. To get your creative juices flowing, you'll be supplied with a mini drawing kit from the Tributary team for sketching on the move!

Important information to read before you book:

• This tour includes low to moderate activity covering approximately 2.5km, with some areas of incline. Covered and comfortable shoes are essential.
• This tour will travel along wheelchair accessible bike baths. Some sections have steep inclines. Please flag any accessibility requirements when booking so our team can best support you.
• This is an outdoor event. Please come prepared for the weather with warm clothes, water bottle, sunscreen, sunhat, raincoat etc.
• If there are any changes to this event due to weather, we will be in touch via email no later than 12 hours prior to the event.

Collaborators

Geoff Robinson

Geoff Robinson is an artist who creates situated projects that engage listening as a process for unravelling the durational layers of place. Robinson’s practice develops comparative relationships between multiple situations and places as a way of understanding deep time, current, and future relations to place.

www.geoffrobinsonprojects.com

Ying-Lan Dann

Ying-Lan Dann is an architect, artist and Interior Design lecturer. She explores temporal processes to generate awareness of environmental flux and emergence. She is an RMIT School of Architecture and Urban Design PhD candidate. Ying lives and works in Melbourne on Wurundjeri land.

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Saskia Schut

Saskia Schut’s research addresses climate uncertainty and extreme Planetary distress through intimacy, relationality and embodiment. She investigates the ecological, historical and cultural legacies that are continuing to shape the urban environment.

Benjamin Woods

Benjamin Woods is an artist who practises with training in sculpture and sound. He explores how embodied relationships with sonic objects can generate attention to relational and ecological connections. Woods has been exhibiting and performing for over ten years and recently completed a PhD project at Monash University focusing on fragile ecologies of practice.