Phone Djäma
sounds, images, remix
The Yolŋu way of life is to make it real. Not talk-talk. Action has to happen. To make it alive.
— Kayleen Djingadjingawuy
Phone & Spear
In the old days Yolŋu went everywhere with their spears. My father always carried his. These days every Yolŋu has a phone.
— Paul Gurrumuruwuy
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.
Open access editionRingtone
Every five, ten or twenty minutes people are rushing to buy a new phone.
— Paul Gurrumuruwuy
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.
Making Worlds Otherwise
Balanda look at the world and see a person here and a tree over there and they see them as separate.
That’s so boring.
— Enid Gurunulmiwuy
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.
Warwuyun (Worry)
See how the patterns connect us.
The world is alive with patterned relations.
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