THE PROJECT

Mountain to Mouth is a biennial, multi-award winning 80km ‘extreme arts journey of discovery’. Over two days, participants follow an imaginary line from the You Yangs mountain range to Geelong’s industrial heartland at nightfall. The event collides, at the City Centre with Geelong After Dark, a night of extreme and unexpected arts, before journey the next morning to Ocean Grove for a finale ceremony. Audiences can join or leave at any point.
Environmental Performance Authority covered the entire 80 km walk. We travelled and interacted with public participants and created ‘pop-up’ site-specific mobile performance that enhanced, intensified and responded to participants’ experiences of the places we traversed. Our group of 8 artists, some of Australia’s leading site-responsive performers, offered participating walkers sensory activities in relation to the surroundings and activated 12 specific sites along the path with embodied performance that drew out ecological, cultural, historical and social layers of place.
"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."