Renewing worlds together: notes from the beach
How can a beach teach us to live more deeply connected lives? How might hanging out at beaches 鈥� albeit in this instance, via computer screens and speakers 鈥� cultivate an appreciation of sand and saltwater as sources of moral instruction听补苍诲听restorative joy? This presentation will be an experiment in form and voice orchestrated between north-east Arnhem Land and Sydney.
Showing work-in-progress from their Australian Research Council funded project,听搁补艐颈辫耻测, Jennifer Deger and Paul G. Wunungmurra will discuss how this beach-based work enables them to extend shared commitments to co-creative forms of making and thinking 鈥� and how this, in turn, informs their vision for the newly established Centre for Creative Futures at Charles Darwin University.
Jennifer Deger and Paul G Wunungmurra听are co-founders and co-directors of the Centre for Creative Futures, Charles Darwin University, established in 2022. They are also co-founders of听, an intergenerational and intercultural arts collective based at Yalakun outstation in east Arnhem Land. They are both leading two current ARC projects,听Ra艐i艐ur: A Yolngu digital art of renewal听补苍诲听Caring for Cosmologies: Making Living Maps for West听Miyarrka.
This event was held online on Monday 17 October 2022.
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听is Professor of Digital Humanities at Charles Darwin University and SEI Visiting Fellow 2021-22. Her work moves between images and words through the intertidal zones of art, anthropology, and environmental humanities. Jennifer has worked on co-creative media projects under Yol艐u leadership for several decades and writes on photography, digital aesthetics, indigenous media, and ethnographic film. She is co-editor of听Feral Atlas: the More-than-Human Anthropocene听(Stanford University Press, 2021).
听is a Dhalwa艐u leader, Senior Custodian of Yalakun outstation, Senior Research Fellow at Charles Darwin University, board member of听Go艐-岣幟听Aboriginal Corporation,听and an internationally respected cultural performer, artist and filmmaker.听He has performed at the Biennale Musica (Venice, Italy), UNESCO鈥檚 21st听General Conference (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), 1982 Commonwealth Games and more. Paul is an actor in the films听The Right Stuff听(1983) and听Quigley Down Under听(1990) and has directed a film that was selected for screening at the Jean Rouch International Film Festival.
听is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Deputy Director 鈥� Member Engagement at the Sydney Environment Institute. His research is situated in the broad interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities and focuses on some of the many philosophical, ethical, cultural, and political issues that arise in the context of species extinctions and human entanglements with threatened species and places.
Header image: courtesy of Miyarrka Media