At dusk each night, floating on the River Torrens outside the Adelaide Festival Centre, a beautiful traditional Chinese Junk will drift by with sails set and filled with moving image. Films, photographs, maps, portraits and text are woven together with a soundscape wafting from
her decks.

Produced by arts company Big hART, Junk Theory is an evocative representation of an iconic beachside suburb in all its ugliness and beauty.

The “Theory of Junk” explores why something that was once new loses value, becomes redundant and then gains value again. In 2005, the Sydney suburb of Cronulla came to symbolise many communities in Australia that are changing, sometimes creating anger, fear and retribution as one culture is seen as less valuable by another.

Created by Scott Rankin