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Tag Archives: Yolngu
Christmas Spirit
Darwinians, mark your calendars. Top Enders and outsiders, make your reservations. Christmas is coming to town. And you do not want to miss it this year. On December 7, at the Chan Contemporary Art Space in Darwin’s CBD, Miyarrka Media … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Communities, Film
Tagged Exhibitions, Gapuwiyak, Jennifer Deger, Yolngu
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Topsoil
Our flight home to the United States left from Sydney, so our last day was spent back in the temperate sunshine down south. We ended our three-week residency by returning to the Sydney Opera House once more to see Bangarra’s … Continue reading
Canberra! Sydney!
Canberra was awesome. I have to admit I never thought I’d say that. I have to give the credit to our hosts all along the way. Kristian Pithie warmly welcomed us to the Chapman Gallery with its lovely show of … Continue reading
Eating Our Shadows
Four years ago this week, in 2007, I was touring through community based art centres in the Northern Territory and Western Australia, buoyed by the recent outpourings of support for the art centres that had emerged from the Senate Inquiry … Continue reading
Side by Side, Yolngu and Balanda
In his article, “Mutual Conversion?: The Methodist Church and the Yolngu,with particular reference to Yirrkala” (Humanities Research, vol. XII, no. 1, 2005, pp. 41-53), Howard Morphy essays a preliminary history of the Methodist Overseas Mission in Arnhem Land. Admitting that … Continue reading
Yalangbara: Art of the Djang’kawu
The National Museum of Australia has been achieving remarkable successes with one extraordinary exhibition of Indigenous art and history after another; and I say “art and history” deliberately, for these shows, Papunya Painting: Out of the Desert, Yiwarra Kuju: the … Continue reading
Teach Your Children
When I first visited Yirrkala and the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre in 2005, Will Stubbs described to me his dream of building a multimedia centre and library. At that time, his dream consisted of some ceramic tiles that might adorn the … Continue reading
Diamond in the Rough
I recently ordered a few films on Indigenous subjects from Ronin Films, and the first one out of the box was Darlene Johnson’s documentary River of No Return (Bower Bird Films, 2008), a profile of Yolngu actress Frances (Djulibing) Daingangan. … Continue reading
“The Remote Avant-Garde”
Here is another video from COFA Talks Online, out of the the University of Sydney’s College of Fine Arts and its Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics. This one features Jennifer Biddle, author of Breasts, Bodies, Canvas: Central Desert art … Continue reading
“The Production of Art as an Area of Social Action”
A new and quite different exhibition of “Aboriginal art” is on display in Sydney now at the Macquarie University Art Gallery. Curated by Jennifer Deger, interventions: experiments between art and ethnography was opened on December 9, 2009 by Djon Mundine. The exhibition … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Art, Communities, Film
Tagged Jennifer Biddle, Jennifer Deger, Yolngu
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