An absurd swimming carnival, a desperate endurance act and a continuous relay in which the distance between Manus Island and Australia will be collectively swum. Through the murky waters of past and present immigration policy, participants will move both towards and away from the idea of home.

Landing invites you to participate or spectate as swimmers physically experience distance and take part in a policy of exile – which both underpinned Australia’s colonisation and is repeated today at offshore detention sites. Swimmers wearing island-shaped hats will plunge into the Melbourne City Baths main pool, attempting to swim a distance equivalent to the ocean stretch between Manus and Australia’s mainland.

Sign on and suit up or barrack in the grandstands  – a range of performers and speakers, and those new to swimming, will guide you and cheer on the swimmers in a collective contemplation of home and histories of Australian immigration.