Perth is a Wetland
Perth is a Wetland: this project communicates the city’s underlying ecology through a projected, moving, sounding exhibition. This exhibition accompanies a walk across the wetland tangent from Claisebrook to Carine. This is a continuous ecological, topographical, geological system. The water locates the ancient Whadjuk Noongar pathway, the drain apparatus, and the bird’s path.
Perth is a Wetland, was then, now, still is. This project presents a journey of discovery.
Walking, drawing and stories have a role in the reconstruction of lost or latent places, in the re-seeing of our environments, in reorientation and making visible.
This project opens the eyes to this ecology, making it apparent: revealing its continuity, presence through the city, and its continuing persistence. Through the unapparent, rerouted, encoded; through the rich, sublime and filthy. We recognise that Perth is and remains a wetland we inhabit. Before we build and design, we need to draw – walk – and listen.
A little wetland engagement recalibrates how we see and read Perth.
Exhibition
2017
Ecological mapping; Environmental communication; Multimedia exhibition