Plotting a restless site

This work was selected as part of the 2015 PSi Performing Mobilities Program. It strove to spatialise a collection of work which explored a landscape protagonist and a spatial practice founded on collection, narrative, walking and making. The installation emerged from a broader body of design research that frames landscape as an inherently performative medium.The material for this installation was generated from a long-term research project located within and around Truganina Explosives Reserve in Altona, Victoria, which investigates the landscape processes which influence the mobility of its matter. The context of the site - its horizontality, exposure and the mobility of its matter reveals the implausibility of sustaining a fixed bound condition within this landscape. The site's location is also where the two directions of Port Phillip Bay's long shore drift meet and collide. It is geomorpologically unique and the research seeks to creatively engage with and reveal these unusual landscape conditions and processes.