Tributaries is an ongoing collaboration with artists Saskia Schut, Geoff Robinson and Ben Wood.
This first public iteration is a series of short audio/video artworks shared through Composite that will be trickled through on a weekly basis. Each clip speaks to specific moments in time conceived as tributaries within and in connection to the lower Moonee Ponds Creek.
This project acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi wurrung peoples as the custodians of the land and waterways in which this project takes place and pay respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging.
Thank you to Aunty Julieanne Axford and Aunty Gail Smith and the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation for their insights and consultation on the project.
The Tributary Project is supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants program, Bus Projects, and Composite.
The Tributary has been published in Kerb, 29 - Journal of landscape architecture. It was included in the Environmental film festival 2022 and features in the ‘Australian Environments on Screen’, a collection of Australian documentary films exploring notions of environment.
News
Tributaries will be hosting a walk as part of ‘Collective Cities’, Open House Melbourne 2023
Tributaries has been selected to guide a series of walks for Open Nature 2023. Tributary Encounters 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.
Images: Ying-Lan Dann
Tributary Project is a collaborative research project that engages with the redirected, hidden and remnant creek tributaries of inner northwest Narrm/Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country. Collaborators include Dr Geoff Robinson, Saskia Schut and Dr Benjamin Woods.