Reimagining the audio walk as an expanded form, this event involves a collective moving, sounding and listening for connections between ecologies and water management practices over time. Combining narration, Auslan, performances, and audio descriptions, multi-forms of listening and sounding call attention to the materiality of listening as an embodied, located and live activity. Led by the tributaries team, the group engages specific intersections between ecologies fragmented by infrastructure and urban planning, noting the resonating continuity of smaller creeks that flow through Quor-nóng/Royal Park, and into Moonee Ponds Creek. How does tapping into the continuous flow of different sensory experiences connect with the resilient flow of urban waterways? In what ways can listening and walking offer ways of attuning to the ecological, historical and cultural layers of place?
Open House Melbourne, Collective City, 2023.
Welcome to Country by Aunty Dianne Kerr.
Auslan interpreting and sonic gesturing by Jodie Labagala.
Performance responses by sound artists Carolyn Connors, Eamon Sprod, and Benjamin Woods.
Sound recording by Yongping Ren.
Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants and Open House Melbourne.