Justine L Walsh
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Ground Tours
by Tributaries
Temporary video and sound installation, curated by Priya Namana
Noel Shaw Gallery, University of Melbourne, April 2026
Ground Tours is a temporary exhibition comprising a series of audiovisual works made across three stormwater drain grills and an accompanying poster series. Activating the below‑ground waterways that course and trickle through the Parkville campus, the project engages these flows as acoustic corridors for conversation, listening and vocalisation.
Tributaries is a collective of artists, architects, landscape architects, educators and researchers working together and with others to foster more just relations with lands and waters. They trace ephemeral and submerged waterways in Narrm/Melbourne to examine how water’s presence, absence, and deliberate obstruction shape hydro‑social territories and ecological loss.
Tributaries members: Ying Lan-Dann, Geoff Robinson, Saskia Schut, Justine Walsh, Benjamin Woods
Documentation by Christo Crocker