Punctum – PERFORMING MOBILITIES http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:59:18 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/wp-content/uploads/webFiles/cropped-PM_ico_02-32x32.jpg Punctum – PERFORMING MOBILITIES http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net 32 32 ROBE/S http://performingmobilities.mickdouglas.net/symposium/traces_gallery/robes/ Sat, 25 Jul 2015 12:39:23 +0000 http://2015.performingmobilities.net/?post_type=passages_mobile&p=1074 The Robe to Central Goldfields Track, walked by thousands of Cantonese in the 1850s, informs one of the great east/west migration landscapes in Australia. In a reverse movement, artists/participants walked sections of the track towards Robe from the Goldfields, which is located approximately 1.5 hours from Melbourne.

After consulting with their ‘local knowledge’ guide, with whom they were put in contact, artists/participants departed with a kit of quartz marker stones to indicate and record places and feelings of estrangement or strange belonging.  They walked their chosen section of the Robe Track over one full day (or 30kms, whichever was more achievable).

Documentation of each walk, including their marker sites, reflections, responses, and recordings were then uploaded onto the Robe/S Blog to inform a collective installation – a quartz cairn marker with an interactive tablet/plaque that draws on the custom of cairns throughout the region that mark passages.

Robe/S culminated in a collective walk for Performing Mobilities participants, from the original Central Goldfields alluvial gold rush site in Chewton, through a migration landscape, to a gathering at an ancient rice paddy field site at Vaughan Springs (a total walk of 2.5 hours) ahead of the Performing Mobilities Assembly in Melbourne.

]]> The Robe to Central Goldfields Track, walked by thousands of Cantonese in the 1850s, informs one of the great east/west migration landscapes in Australia. In a reverse movement, artists/participants walked sections of the track towards Robe from the Goldfields, which is located approximately 1.5 hours from Melbourne.

After consulting with their ‘local knowledge’ guide, with whom they were put in contact, artists/participants departed with a kit of quartz marker stones to indicate and record places and feelings of estrangement or strange belonging.  They walked their chosen section of the Robe Track over one full day (or 30kms, whichever was more achievable).

Documentation of each walk, including their marker sites, reflections, responses, and recordings were then uploaded onto the Robe/S Blog to inform a collective installation – a quartz cairn marker with an interactive tablet/plaque that draws on the custom of cairns throughout the region that mark passages.

Robe/S culminated in a collective walk for Performing Mobilities participants, from the original Central Goldfields alluvial gold rush site in Chewton, through a migration landscape, to a gathering at an ancient rice paddy field site at Vaughan Springs (a total walk of 2.5 hours) ahead of the Performing Mobilities Assembly in Melbourne.

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