Durational Situation / Umeälven / 3022
Geoff Robinson

Durational Situation / Umeälven / 3022  is the sequel to a two part site based audio walk that focuses on the deep time and anthropogenic relations of the Umeälven river. Situated in Umeå, the audio walk picks up from where it left off at Bildmuseet and takes the audience on a guided walk through listening to river systems across time.  

Part one of the audio walk, Durational Situation / Umeälven / Birrarung (as a part of Re-Think festivalen 2021), was a comparative walk between the rivers Umeälven in Sweden and Birrarung in Australia. The walk focussed on the geomorphological and colonial impacts of the two river systems on opposite sides of the world.  

Part two moves forward into the future, a speculative projection focussing on the ongoing transformations of the interglacial period, human impacted environmental change, and the potential for the Umeälven to reclaim its ecology and flow.

I acknowledge this audio walk takes place on Sami land and waters. I pay respects to all Sami people past, present and future.

Durational Situation / Umeälven / 3022

Geoff Robinson is a Melbourne-based artist working on Wurundjeri country. Robinson creates event-based artworks that utilise the temporal qualities of sound and performance and the spatial conditions of physical sites to unravel the durational layers of place. Recent projects include: Tributary Project (2020-2021), with Ying-Lan Dann, Ben Woods & Saskia Schut, Bus Projects, Melbourne; Durational Situation / Vartiovuori (2019-2020), Titanik gallery, Turku; Itinerant Sound (2015-2019), multiple sites across Australia; Itinerant Object / Propositions for Change (2016), Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne; Room Overlay / 5 weeks / Thursdays 6-7pm / Accumulation (2015), West Space, Melbourne; 15 locations / 15 minutes / 15 days (2014), Federation Square, Melbourne; Site Overlay / Acoustic Survey (2013), across three public sites in Melbourne. Robinson has held residencies and exhibited at Titanik gallery, Turku; Helsinki International Artist Programme; MoKS, Estonia; and Seoul Art Space. He was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2014 and completed the PhD project Durational Situation at MADA, Monash University, Melbourne, 2018.
 
www.geoffrobinsonprojects.com