At Coranderrk, the land has always kept its own calendar. Seasons are announced not by dates but by the flowering of the wattle, the rising of the eels, the chorus of the frogs — a living knowledge held in Country itself.
The Wurundjeri Seasons is a living projection art series grounded in Wurundjeri seasonal knowledge and biocultural leadership. Seven seasons. One continuous cycle of knowledge and First Nations cultural authority.
Coranderrk is an Aboriginal owned and led place — a living cultural landscape on Wurundjeri Country, and an open invitation to the people of Victoria to engage with Indigenous culture, knowledge and community.
The Wurundjeri Seasons at Coranderrk is a circular, multi-layered video and sound installation that maps the Woi Wurrung seasonal calendar as it is alive today at Coranderrk Station. The work moves across time through seven seasons: drought years intersect flood years as overlapping circles; species appear and recede across the wheel of the year. The circular, grid-based form holds the calendar not as diagram but as lived rhythm — a structure that refuses to flatten Indigenous ecological knowledge into Western scientific convention, while insisting the two remain in conversation.
At the acoustic heart of the installation is the voice of Uncle Dave Wandin — drawn from his ongoing biocultural research at Coranderrk and his deep, continuing study of the ecological indicators that mark each seasonal turn. These recordings are not archive. They are active knowledge, still being made. Jacqui Wandin's cultural leadership as a Wurundjeri Woman, working at the intersection of land, material and memory, shapes every layer of the work. The soundscape, composed by Ex-Ponto (Ivan Masic), was recorded on Country.
The installation is also a call to participate. Visitors, volunteers and staff are invited to log seasonal observations — species sightings, flowering times, water conditions, weather events, animal behaviour — onto a community chart that forms part of the work. This living record of biocultural indicators at Coranderrk will be published on the Wurundjeri Seasons web platform on the Coranderrk website, extending the project into ongoing community-held ecological knowledge and deepening public connection with Coranderrk and its cultural leadership.
Seven seasons. One continuous practice.
The Wurundjeri Seasons at Coranderrk does not document the past. It practises the present — knowledge not recovered, but continued.
By Jacqui Wandin and Uncle Dave Wandin, with projection art by Lee Ramseyer Bache and soundscape by Ex-Ponto (Ivan Masic).
Projected onto the East and West Walls within the 101 Collins lobby, this video and sound installation encourages the 101 community to consider seasonality, Indigenous culture and knowledge.
Discover the series projected from Monday, 6th July - Friday 10th July, 2026
Discover more about the project here
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