Nightwalks With Teenagers.
2024 Mammalian Diving Reflex / Darren O'Donnell. Presented in association with Encounter and Perth Festival.
When was the last time you let a teenager make your decisions for you? See the streets of our city with different eyes as you explore the neighbourhood with local young people as your guide.
Nightwalks with Teenagers is created with local youth who plan, design and lead public walks through the city at night, exploring the urban landscape. This work is a social experiment focused on the power of walking together, inviting teens and adults to have a unique social experience in a shared place and time, where everyone can let loose, and silences offer moments for contemplation. Nightwalks With Teenagers is the concept of the Toronto-based company Mammalian Diving Reflex, which creates site- and social-specific events.
It’s an intentional contradiction: a show for adults, conceived and led by local teenagers. An exploratory social art experiment, in which the youth let us experience the streets through their eyes.
— Anna McGahan, The Guardian