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Tributary Project
24 November, 2021 - 02 April, 2022
Composite and online
- Geoff Robinson
- Ying-Lan Dann
- Benjamin Woods
- Saskia Schut
Tributary Project is a collaborative research project that engages with the redirected, hidden and remnant creek tributaries of inner northwest Narrm/Melbourne on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country.
The first public iteration of the project is a series of short audio/video artworks shared online through Composite, that have trickled through on a weekly basis. Each clip speaks to specific moments within and in connection to the lower Moonee Ponds Creek tributary system.
These audio/video moments have culminated in an exhibition at Composite, 1 March to 2 April 2022. The exhibition creates new juxtapositions and relations between the sound, moving image, and the different moments and contexts of engaging with the tributaries.
Tributary Project focuses on walking as a way of traversing and following submerged and redirected waterways through the remnant gully terrain, plant life, drain grills, outlets, and their trajectories as tributaries that link together in temporal flows.
Emphasising the ephemerality and permeation of different tributaries feeding into larger arteries, the tributary is mobilised as a generative method for production of artwork and as a way of relaying knowledge-making through the editing and streaming of research.
Through a plurality of encounters and experiences the project aims to engage with the complex durational layers of the creek tributaries, including the geomorphological transformations, colonial impacts of the past 185+ years, and ecological changes across deep time to now.
This project acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people as the custodians of the land and waterways in which this project was made 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.
Tributary Project is supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants program, Bus Projects, and Composite.
Access: The online audio/video artworks have Closed Captions. The exhibition has Open Captions and Audio Description (please note the AD is a partial voiceover description in conjunction with the existing sound track). Composite is wheelchair accessible with accessible bathrooms onsite at Collingwood Yards.
01.03.22—02.04.22
Tributary Project | Exhibition
event
Tributary Project is a collaborative research project by Geoff Robinson , Ying-Lan Dann , Saskia Schut , and Benjamin Woods that engages with the redirected, hidden and remnant creek tributaries of inner northwest Narrm/Melbourne on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country.
2022
low lands,
Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Benjamin Woods, Saskia Schut
work
low lands is part of the Tributary Project , a collaborative research project by Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Saskia Schut, Benjamin Woods that engages with the redirected, hidden and remnant creek tributaries of inner northwest Narrm/Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country.
2021
creek outlet into saltwater wetlands (channel),
Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Benjamin Woods, Saskia Schut
work
creek outlet into saltwater wetlands (channel) is part of the Tributary Project , a collaborative research project by Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Saskia Schut, Benjamin Woods that engages with the redirected, hidden and remnant creek tributaries of inner northwest Narrm/Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country.
2021
remnant gully river red gum,
Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Benjamin Woods, Saskia Schut
work
remnant gully river red gum is part of the Tributary Project , a collaborative research project by Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Saskia Schut, Benjamin Woods that engages with the redirected, hidden and remnant creek tributaries of inner northwest Narrm/Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country.
2021
alluvial flats and siltstone,
Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Benjamin Woods, Saskia Schut
work
alluvial flats and siltstone is part of the Tributary Project , a collaborative research project by Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Saskia Schut, Benjamin Woods that engages with the redirected, hidden and remnant creek tributaries of inner northwest Narrm/Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country.
2021
tributary outlet,
Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Benjamin Woods, Saskia Schut
work
The tributary outlet is part of the Tributary Project , a collaborative research project by Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Saskia Schut, Benjamin Woods that engages with the redirected, hidden and remnant creek tributaries of inner northwest Narrm/Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country.
2022
tributary junction,
Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Benjamin Woods, Saskia Schut
work
tributary junction is part of the Tributary Project , a collaborative research project by Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Saskia Schut, Benjamin Woods that engages with the redirected, hidden and remnant creek tributaries of inner northwest Narrm/Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country.
2022
submerged creek,
Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Benjamin Woods, Saskia Schut
work
submerged creek is part of the Tributary Project , a collaborative research project by Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Saskia Schut, Benjamin Woods that engages with the redirected, hidden and remnant creek tributaries of inner northwest Narrm/Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country.
2021
silurian geology,
Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Benjamin Woods, Saskia Schut
work
silurian geology is part of the Tributary Project , a collaborative research project by Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Saskia Schut, Benjamin Woods that engages with the redirected, hidden and remnant creek tributaries of inner northwest Narrm/Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country.
2021
saltwater wetlands (blue lake),
Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Benjamin Woods, Saskia Schut
work
saltwater wetlands (blue lake) is part of the Tributary Project , a collaborative research project by Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Saskia Schut, Benjamin Woods that engages with the redirected, hidden and remnant creek tributaries of inner northwest Narrm/Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country.
2021
remnant gully yellow box shadow,
Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Benjamin Woods, Saskia Schut
work
remnant gully yellow box shadow is part of the Tributary Project , a collaborative research project by Geoff Robinson, Ying-Lan Dann, Saskia Schut, Benjamin Woods that engages with the redirected, hidden and remnant creek tributaries of inner northwest Narrm/Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country.