DEBRIS FACILITY will offer a collective meditation with networked biomatter. ANTHONY MAGEN will lead a listening-while-walking. We Can be Many Shapes with LZ DUNN with SHIAN LAW. GEOFF ROBINSON will ground sound across bodies, extending in multiple dimensions.

The vast underground networks of mycelium that support plant communication are among the largest living organisms on earth. These delicate but strong webs offer many metaphors – some obvious, some less so – for the operation of human communities. How can we proliferate while still maintaining the intimacy of close connection? Do we listen just with our ears – or can we regard the whole body as a listening organism?

In this performance event, we explore different modes of social communication through collaborative movements organised in distributed space and time. Starting at Design Hub to Royal Park, we cluster, walk, sync and disperse in ritual acts of collected listening.

This event is one branch of the WHY LISTEN TO PLANTS? exhibition program at RMIT Design Hub. Plants know worlds, they contain worlds and they make worlds.