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THE brain-shaking noise you hear as you drift off road is rumblestrip, a warning to drivers they’re close to the edge. Rumblestrip the exhibition is a disturbing look at urban life in a resource-depleted future.

The mixed media exhibition uses found materials, from rubbish chuck outs, building sites, skips, op-shops and salvage yards.

“It’s an urban future when we are not able to use [new] materials because you can’t get them,” artist Erin Coates says.

For one night only, a large disused urban lot in Northbridge will be transformed into a Mad-Max-style urban jungle of flashing lights, mutant vehicles and mobile gardens.

An LED message board will blink out a cryptic message at the entrance–a long tunnel of recycled material that leads to a future world that is whimsical and foreboding.

“We wanted it to be fun, joyous,” Coates say, adding “It’s not totally doom-laden,

“Well, it is a little bit,” co-conspirator Simone Johnston chimes in.

The North Perth artists wanted a temporary art exhibition, and searched for a site that best represented urban decay.

The Pier Street locale fits the bill, a fenced off wasteland destined to become yet another apartment block down the track.

“It’s an empty lot on the edge of an urban bubble,” Coates says.

“Once we secured the site we started thinking about its massive potential, you can go really loud and big.”

Fellow artists Neil Aldum, Loren Holmes, Stuart James, and Shaun Gladwell (the only non-WA artist, and here for PIAF) were enticed to join them.

Local performance artists Snapcat, will perform Lightning Furies every hour: “A girl bikie gang,” Coates says.

“We’re not sure what they are doing but it will be kind of tribalesque,” Johnston says.

Rumblestrip is on March 5, 2016, 7.30pm to midnight. Entry free.

For more info go to rumblestrip2016.com

by JENNY D’ANGER