The Cube at the Botanical Gardens January 24th - 29th 202323
Numinous Bloom by A Million Things
Wed 25 Jan 2023 - Thu 26 Jan 2023
Numinous Bloom is an interactive mechanical garden for all ages featuring triggered animatronics, sound and light. An installation you can play, it uses technology to mimic the way plants communicate with each other through symbiotic relationships with fungi.
Striving to create beauty from waste, the flowers and habitat are 3D printed from recycled plastic, both complementing and contrasting their natural surroundings in Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. Create conversations with nature in this immersive installation that showcases the complexities and intricate patterns found in the natural world.
Come and experience new ways to communicate with nature, through the paradox of technology!
This installation will be presented in ‘The CUBE’, Born in a Taxi’s freestanding transparent art space, which will be located on Oak Lawn for a strictly limited season.
Don’t miss it!
Butterfly House by Born in a Taxi
THU 26 Jan 2023 - SUN 29 Jan
Ever thought about how much we rely on insects? Come and celebrate the miracle of flight and metamorphosis at the Butterfly House. Meet a giant praying mantis or make friends with a caterpillar.
Without these tiny alien looking lifeforms, life on earth would be very different. Magnifying the unseen and exploring the incredible relationships that lie at the bottom of the food chain. Without them the entire web of life would collapse.
Butterfly House is modelled on nature, where nothing is wasted. Create your own butterfly from recycled chip packets and release it to fly inside the butterfly chamber. Puppetry, performance and visual art collide to deliver a playful work that is bound to leave you more appreciative of creepy crawlies.
Take home a seedling to plant in your garden and wait for the real butterflies to arrive.
Age Range: 3 to 10 years accompanied by an adult.
Butterfly House is a performance installation created for children and families drawing attention to the fascinating world of insects and pollinators. Merging puppetry, performance and visual art, audiences can meet a performer dressed as a giant praying mantis, make friends with a caterpillar puppet and create their own butterfly from recycled chip packets. Children will learn more about this incredible creepy crawlies and will be given a seedling to take home to plant in their own garden.
27 – 29 January 2023, Performances: 10 am & 1 pm (45mins)
Butterfly making: from 9.30 am
Image Credit: Catherine Smith
This performance will be presented in ‘The CUBE’, Born in a Taxi’s freestanding transparent art space, which will be located on Oak Lawn for a strictly limited season.
Audiences will be sitting outside on Oak Lawn, so please make sure to dress for the weather and bring your hat, sunscreen and mosquito repellant.
CAST AND CREATIVES
Concept
Bryony Anderson
Co Directors
Carolyn Hanna & Penny Baron
Performers
Penny Baron, Carolyn Hanna, Theresa O’Connor
Installation Design and Build
Gabrielle Panaanen & Miriam Che
Sound Design
Michael Havir & Anya Reynolds
Production Manager
Jamie Turner
Seedlings
Newport Natives Nursery