“The Road Knows Everywhen (And Deev knows everyone)” presented by Manning
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‘The Road Knows’ is a live theatre performance-in-development, which appropriates the urban technological infrastructure of bus travel as a place for ‘sitting on Country’. The bus is a moving, ‘glass case’ theatre and the City is co-writer, character, and artistic collaborator. The voice of the City is articulated through their vocabulary of place names, which are arranged into specific sequences by the bus route. This project uses these phrases to activate portals, to exit the Anglosphere. These portals can reframe time and space, enabling stories and characters from many times and places to enter the journey through the City. The Everywhen can provide more stable, safe and secure possibilities for the voice of the Land to enter into the placemaking, which is otherwise, drowned out by colonial narratives. Sequences of placenames, organised by travel and land use, anywhere in Australia provide accessible portals into the Everywhen.
