Djäma

An exhibition developed with the beaches of Arnhem Land.

Because beaches are alive.

They breathe, they yearn, they worry.

Research begins by attuning to Country and what it wants to show. 

An intermedial experiment in writing with Country.

Begin attuning here.

An invitation to life from the sands and salt waters of Arnhem Land.

Phone & Spear is a co-authored book that invites you into an Aboriginal art of connection—even on the days you feel like smashing your sim card with a rock.

Through phone-made images, photo collage, layered texts and family voices, the book explores how digital media can renew relations with kin and Country.

From clan songs and birdsong to hip hop and gospel, a Yolŋu ringtone always carries a story. In Ringtone we talk with you about the advantages and perils of new connectivity and the surprising role mobile phones play in everyday Yolŋu life.

This film is a remix of a book, which was a remix of an exhibition, which grew from small artworks made by reworking photographs of everyday life in the mobile phones we use to connect with one another. Through colour, pattern, image, text and voice, we celebrate a Yolŋu art of making worlds otherwise.

See how the patterns connect us.

The world is alive with patterned relations.

In October, when the first thunderclouds of the coming wet season begin to form, Yolŋu know Christmas is on its way, a time when sorrow and joy move together as the rains renew the country and rituals renew relationships.

Manapanmirr means to join things, people and places together.

The missionaries brought us Christmas.

But the gifts we share here have been here for a long, long time.