Urban Undercurrents: The Hidden Infrastructure of Wild Cities

Urban Undercurrents: The Hidden Infrastructure of Wild Cities

non/fictionLab researcher and writer David Carlin is part of a group of sound and visual artists, writers, geographers and anthropologists working together through the new RMIT Climate Change Research Network (CCR-NET).

The group won funding through the RMIT Sensing Climate Change initiative and is co-devising and co-presenting a transdisciplinary ‘panel’ for the 2021 Festival of Urbanism. The panel, Urban Undercurrents: The Hidden Infrastructure of Wild Cities, taking place online on Friday 17th September, has the improvisational form of a multimodal, collaborative essay meshing live performance, writing, sound, photography, visual art and video. It is ‘a panel that roams, tracing the human and more-than-human entanglements of what lies beneath the city and its culture/natures. Artistic intervention, speculative proposition, community discussion—this live/digital event takes place in and between the cultural spaces of the Collingwood Yards and Collingwood Underground Carpark, inviting the audience into an experience of the city’s metaphoric and literal subterranea. What are the wild undercurrents and hidden infrastructures coursing all around—how do we encounter feral ecologies, contaminated creativity and stray ethics? And how do we make space for conversations and rituals that create the conditions for regeneration and wild life?’

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Ecosystem services tree image by Aviva Reed.

09 September 2021

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