Action over two days, 29-30 April 2005
Two banner marches were undertaken for Marches for a May Day, Sydney.
These marches took place at dawn on consecutive days leading up to May Day,
on 29 April and 30 April 2005. The two marches followed indentical routes,
beginning at the Waverley Cemetery and making their way in to the suburban
streets of Bronte. A dinner for those who had participated in the two marches
was held in Maroubra on the evening of 30 April.
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Marches for a May Day, Sydney 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 banner march on 29 April followed the shape of the boundary between South Vietnam and Cambodia, created on 21 July 1954. The march on 30 April followed the shape of the boundary between Vietnam and Cambodia, created on 30 April 1975.
Other banner marches for this project have taken place in Melbourne, and Kellerberrin (WA).
Traces of the banner marching project have been exhibited at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) in Melbourne, at the International Art Space Kellerberrin Australia (IASKA) in Kellerberrin, at the Perth Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) in Perth, and at Spacement Gallery in Melbourne.
For a list of writing on the banner marching project, click here.
Credits for Marches for a May Day, Sydney.
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