Amaara Raheem

Treatment III is the third instalment of an ambitious public art project at Melbourne Water’s Western Treatment Plant (WTP) in Werribee, first initiated in 2015. Focusing on the histories, technologies and communities of our wastewater infrastructure in Melbourne’s west.

Celebrating a day in the life of the plant and responding to the extraordinary landscape, technologies and community surrounding Melbourne’s oldest and largest waste treatment facility, TIII: Night + Day will bring the site alive through live music, sculpture, film and performance works from sunset on Friday 21 April and sunrise on Saturday 22 April.

Facilitated by Amaara Raheem, with VCA MA Dance students: Zhimeng Bian, Forest Kapo, Annabel Shaw, Vivien Tandos & Yixin Zhang.

The Improvisors are bringing whole-body listening (individual and collective) to Treatment III and response in real time. Without knowing in advance what they will make or how they will make it, this group of performers will use a series of choreographic tools and tasks to encounter the artworks and the site as collaborators.