Action over one day, 30 October 2004
Two banner marches were undertaken for 22.06.1911/30.10.2004. These marches
took place in Kellerberrin, a small town in the West Australian wheat-belt,
on 30 October 2004. The first march took place at dawn, the second at dusk.
The dusk march was followed by a dinner for all those who had participated
in the marches.
22.06.1911/30.10.2004 is part of Marches
for another season, an ongoing project of banner marches initiated in
2003. The project’s structure has developed alongside a process of collecting
instances of the creation of national boundaries since 1901. This catalogue
of boundaries, ordered by date, provides a mnemonic system for the banner
marches. Each national boundary generates a line. This line provides a route
for marching, so that each march traces a national boundary by its course
through a given place. The process of marching and tracing is ongoing.
The dawn banner march in Kellerberrin traced the line of the boundary agreed on 30 October 1911 between Great Britain and Germany. The dusk march traced the line of the boundary established on 1 July 1962, when the same line agreed between Great Britain and Germany on 30 October 1911 became the boundary between Uganda and Rwanda.
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Traces from the Kellerberrin marches were exhibited in the solo exhibition 22.06.1911/30.10.2004: Documents after Marching Season, at the Regent Theatre, Kellerberrin, the group exhibition From Space to Place, curated by Marco Marcon, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, and the group exhibition Ocular Lab: 12, at Spacement in Melbourne.
Other banner marches for this project have taken place in Melbourne, and Sydney.
Traces of the banner marching project have also been exhibited at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne.
For a list of writing on the banner marching project, click
here.
Credits for 22.06.1911/30.10.2004.
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