“Gravity defying feats await you when the Barwon Water forecourt is transformed by artists from Made In Natimuk.

ACT Natimuk, Made in Natimuk, Y Space, Transience and Mary French have collaborated to bring to life this site-specific, bespoke performance event with and for the Geelong Community.

With help from local schools Barwon Heads Primary and Barwon Valley School, the event features shadow puppets, aerial dancing and animation projections. The project features a genus of native fish that live in the rivers and estuaries of the Barwon waterways.

10min show on the hour from 6.30pm.

The Sensory Portals are new intimate spaces for you to experience multi-sensory artistic encounters.

Funded by the Arts & Culture Department of the City of Greater Geelong and Creative Victoria. The conceptualisation, architectural design and siting composition of the Sensory Portals has been a collaborative work of Geelong-based artist Don Walters and architectural academic Mirjana Lozanovska and architect Stewart Seaton from the School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University. 

The portals have been constructed with a view to being used by the wider community post Geelong After Dark. For GAD 2019 various artists have been invited to activate the three portals to create unique and intimate experiences. 

This underwater soundworld has been created using hydrophones (special underwater microphones) as these subaquatic sounds are not normally audible to the human ear.

Break the surface tension, dive in and become immersed in a sonic environment populated by the sounds of yabbies, mussels, sea horses, carp, schools of shrimp and more. You are now entering their world… how do these species hear us?

Artistic direction and hydrophone recordings Ros Bandt and Vicki Hallett, engineering and sound design Jem Savage

• www.vickihallett.com

• www.rosbandt.com

• www.savagemusics.com

The Sensory Portals are new intimate spaces for you to experience multi-sensory artistic encounters.

Funded by the Arts & Culture Department of the City of Greater Geelong and Creative Victoria. The conceptualisation, architectural design and siting composition of the Sensory Portals has been a collaborative work of Geelong-based artist Don Walters and architectural academic Mirjana Lozanovska and architect Stewart Seaton from the School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University. 

The portals have been constructed with a view to being used by the wider community post Geelong After Dark. For GAD 2019 various artists have been invited to activate the three portals to create unique and intimate experiences. 

Turbulence is a move-through installation, this Sensory Portal activates above and below to portray and connect with a sense of turbulence. The structure of video projection, sound and vapour is an observation of modes for fragmenting and enclosing ambient and fluid forms of nature to transmit their underlying force.

The Sensory Portals are new intimate spaces for you to experience multi-sensory artistic encounters.

Funded by the Arts & Culture Department of the City of Greater Geelong and Creative Victoria. The conceptualisation, architectural design and siting composition of the Sensory Portals has been a collaborative work of Geelong-based artist Don Walters and architectural academic Mirjana Lozanovska and architect Stewart Seaton from the School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University. 

The portals have been constructed with a view to being used by the wider community post Geelong After Dark. For GAD 2019 various artists have been invited to activate the three portals to create unique and intimate experiences. 

‘ORO’ is a traditional circular Macedonian dance performed by elderly Macedonians who had worked at Ford factory. Its rhythmic (distinctive 7/8 rhythm base) depends on each individual working towards a collective dance. Dance was a way that Macedonian workers were relieved from the grind of manufacturing work, but this dance also resonates with the repetitive and relentless machinic pace. ORO reminds each generation of the ways lives are bound into a momentum of life and pragmatic existence.

In Sensory Portal 3 ‘ORO’ you enter a rhythmic soundscape, life size images of people dance -they dance around the walls and you stand in this small space 1200 X 2400 in the midst of an energised field. If there are two or more people you rub shoulders with the dancers on the walls. They dance around you (in the centre of the space) or you dance with them.

Past Ford worker participants from Macedonian Social Club

• Ilo Najdovski

• Venta Pacovska

• Cvetko Pacovski

• Bogdan Dimitrovski

• Ilo Nikolovski

• Dosta Smileska

• Vera Toseska

• Dejka Stevkovska

• Lena Chomovska

• Dora Taseska