About this Event
Tributaries members will illuminate how the Parkville campus’ underground waterways became acoustic tunnels for conversation and vocalising between collective members. This conversation is the first in our Sediment series, a new public program being launched by Archives and Special Collections. Sediment is a series of responses experimenting in form, exploring intersecting and related themes and topics from the material holdings at ASC.
Ground Tours is a temporary exhibition of fieldwork by Tributaries collective, undertaken in and around the University’s Parkville campus. It features audiovisual works and an accompanying poster series made across three stormwater drain grills. Guided by the sonic water flow of a now-submerged creek under the campus connecting with the Birrarung, the collective conversed, made sounds, listened and vocalised across distances with each other and the ecologies that now live below ground. Ground Tours was developed in dialogue with The Grand Tour exhibition, an exhibition of historic European works on paper, and questions traditions of walking and touring, while turning our attention to the local and unseen.
Ground Tours will be on display in the Noel Shaw Gallery, Baillieu Library from 15 – 30 April.
Tributaries is a collective of artists, architects, landscape architects, educators and researchers working together and with others to foster more just relations with lands and waters. They trace ephemeral and submerged waterways in Narrm/Melbourne to examine how water’s presence, absence, and deliberate obstruction shape hydro‑social territories and ecological loss.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Noel Shaw Gallery, Level 1, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
USD 0.00
