UNCLE DAVE WANDIN opens this program with a Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony. DJIRRI DJIRRI DANCE GROUP will perform stories of creation, family and country. KELP D/J + BENJAMIN HANCOCK will orchestrate vegetable and other matters. DJ SLIME will offer gooey microtonal concoctions.

In all ecologies, microbes perform vital element-cycling work for our planet. Microbial listening needs to be broad, proliferant and expansive, reflecting this ubiquity and encompassing varying complex entanglements of lifeforms and situations. But microbial existence also necessitates a listening that becomes specific, attuning with sensitivity to the cellular expressions of the imperceptible and the infinitesimal. We begin by opening an encounter between human and other worlds that hinges on deepening our listening, via conviviality and music, meeting in the universes we contain.

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.