Concrete Playground

Every seven years, it is said, all of the cells of our body are replaced by brand new, potentially carcinogenic copies. This is growth, maturation, repetition. Someone of a philosophical bent could argue that this means we are constantly unbecoming ourselves, or that indeed there never was a solid self in the beginning.

Maybe that all seems like an abstract argument, but turn your mind to the suburbs of Sydney and imagine that each of those houses is a cell and that, over the years, each will eventually be replaced. Does this mean our suburbs are constantly unbecoming? Or that there is no actual truth to our sense of community?

Writer and performer, Rosie Dennis, along with June Hickey, explores Sydney's obsession with property development, designer communities and the silent class war of financially driven displacement in Driven to New Pastures. Sheltering in a house marked for demolition, theirs is a tale of six figures forced to move on when the developers' dream turns to reality.

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Image by Marilyn Moreno.