Miyarrka Media return to New York

Miyarrka Media has once again been selected to show their work in New York for the 2014 Margaret Mead Film Festival. Miyarrka’s recent installation ‘Gapuwiyak Calling’ which premiered at the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum in March this year, will be installed and exhibited as part of the  annual Film Festival held at the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

GAPUWIYAK CALLING

Thursday, October 23 – Sunday, October 26 | Festival Hours | Grand Gallery
2014 l Multimedia installation l Australia

http://www.amnh.org/explore/margaret-mead-film-festival/events

PHONE-MADE MEDIA FROM GAPUWIYAK

Images from the exhibition of Gapuwiyak Calling at the American Museum of Natural History.

Miyarrka in Denmark

Miyarrka Media have been invited to exhibit ‘Christmas Birrimbirr (in Christmas Spirit)’ at the New Moesgaard Museum in Denmark.

This will be the first time Christmas Birrimbirr has been exhibited outside of Australia since it was first shown at the Chan Contemporary Art Space in Darwin 2011.

Members of Miyarrka media will travel to Denmark for the international exhibition and Grand opening of the new museum on the 11th Oct 2014.

http://www.moesgaardmuseum.dk/english/

Miyarrka in Brisbane

Gapuwiyak Calling: phone-made media from

Arnhem Land 

Opening Friday 14th March University of Queensland

Anthropology Museum

Exhibition open 15 March – 15 August 2014

“We decided to name our exhibition Gapuwiyak Calling because we’re calling you through our phones,

calling so you can connect to us.  We’re grabbing hold of new possibilities using these little things.

Maybe you’ll answer us?” – Paul Gurrumuruwuy

(Warren Gurruwiwi and Enid Wunungmurra at the opening of  ‘Gapuwiyak Calling’)

See more photo’s from the exhibition here:

Miyarrka in New York

Miyarrka Media receives a Margaret Mead Film Festival Special Mention for their film ‘Manapanmirr, in Christmas Spirit’ at the 2012 Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York.

2012 Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award Announced

Miyarrka in London

Join Miyarrka Media for discussions and preview screenings of their recent projects, at the University of the Arts London and University College London.

Tuesday, 20th November 2012

University of the Arts London.
Documentary Research Forum
London College of Communications
Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6SB
18:00, MLG06,

Wednesday 21st November 2012

University College London, Dept of Anthropology 18:00,
14 Taviton Street
(just north of Gordon Square).

Miyarrka in Paris

Miyarrka Media are in Paris for the 31st Jean Rouch International Ethnographic Film Festival. Please join us for the screening of ‘Manapanmirr, in Christmas Spirit’, on Monday 12th at 3.00pm. A discussion panel will follow the screening, Miyarrka Media will be joined by Barbara Glowczewski, Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. And Jessica de Largy Healy, independent curator and researcher.

Photo: Françoise Foucault
Comité du Film Ethnographique