Dominoes

Overview

This Saturday, February 6, a moving sculpture will travel across the Melbourne CBD. And no, we're not talking about those guys who paint themselves silver. Conceived and assembled by London-based performance company Station House Opera with the assistance of hundreds of local volunteers, Dominoes consists of thousands upon thousands of oversized breezeblock dominoes all lined up in a row. And at 5pm on the dot, the first one will be knocked down.

The subsequent chain reaction will travel along Swanston Street from Melbourne Town Hall to St Paul's Cathedral, before crossing the road and continuing down Flinders Lane and Degraves Street. After running beneath the Flinders Street Station underpass, it will then cross the Yarra via the pedestrian bridge, chart a course through Southbank Shopping Centre and Hamer Hall, before finishing up in front of the Arts Centre spire. In all it'll run two kilometres and is expected to take about 25 minutes to get from beginning to end.