Underfoot: The Facility - Track 1 - Beautiful, natural prison

Monday, 5 August 2024 - 3:00pm
Image of Yarra Bend Park showing Yarra Bend Asylum and Kew Asylum.

Yarra Bend Park is both beautiful and haunted.

The site has been home to an insane asylum, a women’s prison, a Native School, a police barracks, an AIDS hospital, and more.

In this episode, Liz and Jinghua walk you through this lovely bit of Wurundjeri country where the Yarra River meets Merri Creek – and where thousands of people met grisly regimes of containment and control.
 

Postcard of Yarra Bend Park with halftone effect.
Thursday
Through multimedia storytelling, Underfoot: The Facility tells the story of carceral logics over the last 180 years and reveals whispers of resistance that still resonate today.

Presenter

Jinghua Qian and Liz Crash

Topic