2 hours
Threading the Waters is an immersive projection-based installation event in collaboration with the Yarra River Keeper Association, Up The Creek, artist Evie J Taylor, as facilitated by Birrarung Riverfest 2025.
Engaging with the river systems, this work seeks to prompt a conversation between community and the environment, touching on ideas of ecological memory and belonging in place.
Blending projected video constellations and poetic fragments, Threading the Waters invites audiences into a moment of stillness, honouring the interconnectedness of all beings and systems, and acknowledging the interdependence between human and ecological health - both healing and finding belonging on interpersonal, ecological and cosmological levels.
Visitors are encouraged to drift between moments of connection and introspection, tracing their own relationship with landscape, self, and time. Projected outdoors and in dialogue with the local environment, Threading the Waters becomes a soft offering: a return to the space between stars and rivers, memory and presence.
This project builds upon Evie's ongoing body of work, Starsong, which explores the relationship between the personal and cosmological, through ideas of interdependence. This is expressed through abstract video constellation projections, soundscapes and poetic text. On the banks of the Birrarung, a site long significant to the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people, this iteration aims to respond directly to the land, river systems and histories that define this landscape.
Community Gathering
Join the artists for a special launch event including poetry reading, live music, picnic and screening.
This is a free event, but bookings are encouraged. Head to Abottsford Convent to confirm your place.
When
Installation:
24 — 27 September
Community Gathering:
Thursday 25 September
7pm — 9pm
Where: Hospital Lawn
Cost: Free