THE PROJECT

“It’s a walk, a performance and a sensory adventure exploring the rich sensations of Moreland!”
EPA invited people to treat an everyday pathway between Jewell Station and Fawkner Stations, City of Moreland, as a sensory delight: to follow the lead of their senses: to look, hear, smell, touch – even taste. 
Sensory Line focussed on the places in between that we might usually ignore, treating them as complex, valuable ecosystems. Through live performance and guided participatory activities, the journey released beauty, surprise and vivid experiences from hitherto unremarked places through the changing atmospheres of day, evening and night.
Activities included: pausing, each time a train passed, to really listen – to distant warning signals of an approaching train, its crescendo and decrescendo, the rush of air, the otherwise unnoticed sound of passing bicycle tyres, or of birds, or our own breath, or an aircraft, dog toenails on the path, a passing truck…; choosing a favourite object, in a strange local warehouse of collectibles, to discuss with another participant when we resumed walking; performing with books from a railway-side miniature library; local volunteers showing us how they were revegetating derelict railway land; a mock sale of ‘off the plan’ apartments in an old railway station waiting room and disintegrating toilet block; telling tales, as we walked, of indigenous, geological and industrial history of the area; eating falafel in a Middle-Eastern cafeteria…
Images: Laki Sideris (1-3); Gabrielle New (4-11)
"We acknowledge that we live, work and create on the lands and waters of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people. We recognise that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people are the Traditional Custodians of the lands and their continuing connection to the land and waters surrounding us. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
 We acknowledge that generations of First Nations people have danced, performed and told story here for over sixty thousand years and these rich customs and traditions continue in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island culture today."