Disaster communication mediates how people respond to emergency situations. With the rise of new technologies, emerging media practices are being…
Circulating cassettes of ceremony: Indigenous peer-to-peer networks in Arnhem Land
During the late 1970s, audio cassette technology became freely available in the Northern Australian Aboriginal reserve of Arnhem Land. Made…
Updated? Teaching Conservation Through Time-Based Media Art
Time-based media art challenges conventional conservation methodologies. Can the disruption caused by new modes of practice contribute to disciplinary development?…
Preservation Through Knowledge Transmission: From Artist to Institution
The preservation of choreographic work lays challenge to the core principles of the traditional museum model—perpetuity and permanence. What processes…
Locating cross-cultural fieldwork in the discipline of conservation
Interfacing with different cultural practices is a defining feature of working in the conservation field. However, do conservation students learn…
Smoke and Mirrors: Navigating Australias 2020 Bushfires
This presentation examines the states infrastructure monitoring systems for disaster management during Australia’s recent bushfires, with analysis focused on how…
Documentation Cultures: Arnhem Land 1935 – 2015
Ceremonial activity has always been a form of documentation for Yolngu – the Indigenous people of north-east Arnhem Land in…
Peppimenarti Publication
In Peppimenarti, there is no library, museum, or higher education facility. A lack of infrastructure has greatly limited intergenerational knowledge…
Bali Bali Balga
Alan Griffiths performance archive for The National: New Australian Art, 2017.
Wukun Wanambi’s Nhina, Nhama, ga Ngama
All the infrastructure involved in circulating Wukun’s archival art – the warehouses of servers, the bulbs of electronic displays, the…
This is so contemporary?
What conservation strategies can be used for Tino Sehgal’s 2005 work This Is So Contemporary, and what are their relations to…
Land Rights Documentary
Yirrkala was an isolated mission station until the coming of a huge bauxite mine in the late 1960s. The impact…
Performance as Documentation
Documenting the indivisibility of ceremonial art forms – dance, design, language, sculpture, story, music – according to the collective intent of the Rirritjingu. Capturing performance…
Hidden
Mirima landscapes conceal and open out, always at the point of glowing or disappearing. In this photographic world of East…
Support Yirrkala and Melbourne partnership
Can the continuous traditions and long-term commitments of Yolngu knowledge holders ground the the actions of emerging Western conservators? Presentation focused…
Conservation media
Developing resources that support deeper levels of interaction and collaboration between centralised conservation experts, regional institutions, cultural workers, local volunteers,…
Oral Cultures
Cultural materials recontextualised via ongoing preservation practices. Or the coming together of electronic orality, critical heritage, remix culture and intergenerational collaboration.…
Yirrkala Museum
Museum installations were created in Yirrkala, under the supervision of Yolngu leaders. The Yirrkala museum has a long history and rich…
Yirralka Rangers
The Yirralka rangers in association with Yolngu traditional owners manage both land and sea in the Laynhapuy Indigenous Protected Area…
Knife Dance
I received ‘unknown’ footage from the National Film and Sound Archives, and was asked to try and identify source. Yumutjin…
Teaching
Here are some of my photos from Audiovisual Preservation subject, taught in collaboration with NFSA: https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/view/2014/CUMC90020 Here is a selection…
Manikay archive
Manikay (traditional songs) were once everywhere in Australia, now Northeast Arnhem Land is one of Australia’s few surviving regions for…
Dance database
A collection of locally recorded and documented dance performances featuring Indigenous groups from around Australia. The library features traditional song…
To Hold and Protect
Yolngu were independently recording cultural action with reel to reel and cassette recorders throughout the 80’s and 90’s. These musical…
Buku-Larrnggay Mulka
Profile film I Produced and Directed for Australian Government – FaHCSIA (Source: http://www.youtube.com/) Media-rich site I developed with funding from…
Stories Under Tagai
Filmed video series for Arts Queensland and the State Library of Queensland exploring traditional storytelling, intergenerational knowledge transfer, indigenous arts and youth cultural…
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