Memorial for Forgotten Plants

Written By Tanya Voges
Dancer offers a length of cotton fabric to the viewer, behind her in an outdoor setting are audience members, standing, holding another part of the long thin fabric

Parklands photo by Morgan Sette

A participatory performance project by Louise Flaherty (visual artist) with Tanya Voges (dancer) and Belinda Gehlert (musician) exploring the temporal nature of plant life that has been disappearing from urban settings in Adelaide since the times of colonisation.

This extends a long term project the Louise has been working on, to connect with audiences in a new way. This is an emotive experiential work that is site specific and adaptive to the participants.

Presented originally for OSCA’s 2020 Parklands event in Park #17 South Terrace, Adelaide, we have brought this work to the Adelaide Botanic Gardens for Nature Festival 2021 and for Adelaide Fringe in the Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens in February 2022

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