Kummargii Yulendj Barring Gadhaba // Projections of a Current Future

Kummargii Yulendj Barring Gadhaba // Projections of a Current Future is a radical public art intervention that reimagines Melbourne’s landscape through the lens of Boon Wurrung knowledge and the enduring presence of water Country. A collaboration between Boon Wurrung Senior Elder and Professor, N’arwee’t Dr Carolyn Briggs AM, The Alliance for Praxis Research (APR) and Amina Briggs, this project disrupts the city’s colonial infrastructure by resurfacing the buried path of William’s Creek with audio/visual projections, reawakening the ancestral memory of water that still flows beneath Melbourne’s streets. Centred on the living culture of the Boon Wurrung people, the work invites audiences into a journey led by N’arwee’t, whose oral storytelling — together with the visual design of Boonwurrung artist Amina — grounds the experience in Country, memory, and future-making.

Participants are invited to follow the flow of William’s Creek from its headwaters in Parkville to its meeting with the Birrarung River (the Yarra), choosing between two collective activations: a mass cycle on October 4th, or a walking march on October 11th, along the path of the iilks (eels).

This embodied journey connects each participant to the layered geographies of the city—its hidden waterways, its entangled histories, its wounded places—and asks them to move differently, to see differently, and to feel differently. As Country is resurfaced, and water memory is reawakened, this event offers a powerful vision of future-making through kinship, responsibility, and radical care. In N’arwee’t’s words “Kummargii Yulendj Barring Gadhaba - Knowledge is rising, and we are moving forward with it, together".

*If you can't make it, don’t worry. Some of the projections used during this event will be available to view at the locations down Elizabeth Street from 6pm, every night until the 16th of October.

*Projection locations can be found under "Important Event Information"