Wandering Stars 2021

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When you look up at night, the stars and sky contain ancient, unifying stories. For Wandering Stars, those lessons materialise on the Birrarung (Yarra River) as an undulating, over 200-metre-long, glowing eel skeleton.

The installation illuminates the eel's astonishing migratory journey from local inland waterways to the deepest depths of the Coral Sea and features an enigmatic soundscape; a full lunar cycle of 28 incandescent moons rising from the river; tangles of glowing glass eels; and hundreds of floating lanterns made by the community, under the supervision of Liverpool's internationally exhibited, public-art makers The Lantern Company.

As you wander along riverbanks with family and friends - feasting on fire-roasted snacks from Rising's kitchens in Birrarung Marr - you'll connect with First Peoples' knowledge of the land, sea, sky and river on which we all live.

Part of Rising.