What Privilege’s The Colony - Dare To Stop Us was on show at the South Coast Regional Arts Centre in Goolwa.
Read moreDeadly Family Portraits - ABC
South Australia, 2018-2019
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following program may contain images and voices of deceased persons.
Change Media supported three emerging Aboriginal producer and director teams to create a three part mini series for ABC iView. Carl Kuddell worked with the teams as a consultant producer across the series, and Change Media offered its services as a post production house.
Deadly Family Portraits, a new production initiative to celebrate and showcase the depth of artistic talent among Aboriginal families and emerging Aboriginal filmmakers was launched today by the South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC), ABC Arts iView and Arts South Australia.
The Deadly Family Portraits series presents the compelling stories of three outstanding Aboriginal families, the Sansburys, the Crombies and the Fieldings, where artistic talent continues across the generations. Each episode have been produced by an Aboriginal filmmaking team to create an intriguing conversation between artist and filmmaker; as they reflect upon identity, culture, life, art, country and family. Each film premiered on ABC iView Arts in 2019.
Credits
Directors - Pearl Berry, Isaac Wilson, Edoardo Crismani
Producers - Lilla Berry, Sierra Schrader, Gina Rings
Consultant Series Producer - Carl Kuddell
Editors - Emma McGavisk and Johanis Lyons-Reid
Colorist - David Tang
DOPs - Johanis Lyons-Reid, Allan Collins, David Roberts
Sound mix - Carlos Manrique Clavijo
SAFC - Nara Wilson and Amanda Duthie
ABC Executive Producers - Lin Jie Kong and Sally Chesher
Partners:
Deadly Family Portraits is an initiative of South Australian Film Corporation, Arts South Australia and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Supported by TARNANTHI Art Gallery of South Australia, Mimili Maku Arts, Tandanya Arts Centre, Electric Fields
The Loop - SBS
The Loop - 20min hybrid docu-soap opera about disability and representation, for SBS
Read moreWhat Privilege - Adelaide Festival of Ideas
What Privilege panel and public game workshop at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas 2018
Read moreThe Colony - Murray Bridge Regional Gallery
The Colony - Who Comes to Visit? Exhibition, June 2018: Murray Bridge, SA.
This work-in-progress with Ngarrindjeri explores assimilation, treaty and bureaucracy as the logistics of empire.
What is your experience of whiteness and identity in the context of Treaty and colonization? How do we want to share our limited time on this planet? How do we come to terms?
The Colony is a dynamic, experimental installation, combining projection work, sculpture, line art and poetic audio-visual provocations. Opening Sunday June 17 at 2.30pm, with a Welcome to Country by Ngarrindjeri Elder Rose Rigney (find her speech below), speeches by the lead artists and drinks and nibbles. The installation will be shown from June 15 to July 22 2018.
Click here for useful links and background info about Treaty, Uluru Statement, Letters Patent and Native Title.
This cross-cultural collaboration was created by Jen Lyons-Reid [concept, line art, text], Carl Kuddell [concept, sculpture, text], Ngarrindjeri man Clyde Rigney Jnr [concept, text, audio], Felix Weber [sculptures, installation] and Johanis Lyons-Reid [video].
Welcome to the Colony
When you enter the Colony, who comes to visit? Navigate a bivouac of menacing, invasive colonies and colonial beliefs, to experience how Ngarrindjeri continue to maintain and share their cultural values in the tension between assimilation and treaty. “Nukkan Nganawi Ngarrindjeri Kringkari Ngoppen? Can you see my walk in your white world?”
Suspended in a surreal, timeless now, tinged with past, present and future colonial ventures, an array of cargo crates form a mobile bureaucratic envoy, dispatched to colonize this space.
HQ spews data, assessing and assimilating Ngarrindjeri values and dictating the terms of ‘settlement’. From its crates spill the colonizers cargo, flotsam, tools and toys, casting menacing shadows of invasion. Absurd technology prints and projects evaluation protocols and Colonizer roles, rendered as friendly, garish cartoons. A never-ending negotiation emanates from a makeshift tent. “Are you still here? Are you listening? Do I scare you? I am assimilated, I speak fluent Grey. We need to come to terms.”
Navigating this bivouac, audiences are invited to decipher the impact of colonial beliefs: What does assimilation mean to you? Which of the colonizers do you know? What is your experience of treaty and colonization? Who do you see when you look into the mirror? How do we want to share our limited time on this planet? How do we come to terms?
When you exit back into the colony through the Welcome gate, please take some information from the Community Notice Board.
What Privilege - The Colony [stage 1] - exhibition is one of the 2017-18 outcomes of our cross-cultural collaboration during Creating Together - what can possibly go wrong?, alongside What Privilege - Unity of Oppression show at Nexus Arts, Adelaide.
What Privilege- The Colony [stage 2] - exhibition and games, 2018-19: We plan to create an interactive game world, run by a colonial bureaucracy, ‘Grey Matters Inc’, with a diverse range of artists, partners and communities. This intersectional project and participatory game will explore concepts of intersectionality, insurrection and solidarity. and Goolwa South Coast Arts Centre in August 2019 during SALA Festival.
What Privilege - this breath is not mine to keep [stage 3] - arts trail, 2019-21: In the third stage we will present the work to regional arts venues, festivals and other events, further develop interactive and mobile elements of the work and tour the game, performance and exhibition nationally.
Floor sheet info clockwise from Gallery entrance:
Entrance: ‘Community Notice Board’ - Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell, lamp-post ads featuring What Privilege’s 50 colonizers and their 10 gangs, mixed media, 2018
Left-hand wall 1: ‘Can you see me?’ - Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell, Clyde Rigney Jnr, sculpture, Ngarrindjeri archival images of Clyde's ancestors Grace and Daniel Gollan, mirror-glass, metal, LED, mixed media, 3x 55cm x 45cm, 2018
Centre: ‘The Colony Cargo’ - Felix Weber, Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell, Clyde Rigney Jnr, sculpture, 5x 90cm x 90cm x 180cm, mixed media, 2018
‘You didn’t see me coming’ - Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell, Clyde Rigney Jnr, mixed media, digital photo-frame, 2018
‘Mission protocol’ - Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell, Felix Weber, Clyde Rigney Jnr, kinetic sculpture, wooden printer with endless canvas loop, mixed media, 2018
Left-hand wall 2: ‘This is not a toy’ – Felix Weber, Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell, sculpture + shadow projection, wood, torch, 2018
Back wall: ‘Surveillance / Protection’ - Johanis Lyons-Reid, Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell, Clyde Rigney Jnr, video projection, featuring videos created in collaboration with Ngarrindjeri, 2018
Right-hand wall: ‘Three Cheers for Civilization’ - Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell, dual channel video projection, line art, poetry, 2018
Right-hand wall/ entry wall right corner: ‘We meet again (are you still listening?)’ - Clyde Rigney Jnr, Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell, Felix Weber, sculpture, metal/ canvas tent, audio-video projection, 1.7mx 2.5m, 2018
Entry/ Exit wall: ‘Story Theft’ – Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell, Clyde Rigney Jnr, video projection, Ngarrindjeri values, line art, poetry, 2018
Exit: ‘Welcome to the Colony’ – Felix Weber, Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell, sculpture, 4.5mx 3m, wood, mixed media, LED-neon, 2018
Credits:
Artistic concept / co-curators: Clyde Rigney Jnr, Jen Lyons-Reid and Carl Kuddell
Sculptures and installations: Felix Weber, Carl Kuddell, Jen Lyons-Reid
Video / FX: Johanis Lyons-Reid
Cartoons and line art: Jen Lyons-Reid
Poetry/ text: Jen Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell, Clyde Rigney Jnr
Spoken word performance: Clyde Rigney Jnr
Editing (slide projections and audio): Jen Lyons-Reid and Carl Kuddell
Seamstress extraordinaire: Jemima Thompson
Printing: PrintsAlive (Thanks Warren and Trevor)
Bump-in support: Melinda Rankin and her lovely team, Det, Don, Trevor and all the other volunteers and tech support at the Murray Bridge Regional Gallery and city council
Welcome to Country: Ngarrindjeri Elder Rose Rigney
Photo and video documentation: Johanis Lyons-Reid and Carl Kuddell
Ngarrindjeri Catering: Little Catering Co
And a big shout out to all our community participants, funders and supporters.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, and by the South Australian Government through Arts SA.
The project has been supported by the Regional Gallery Murray Bridge.
What Privilege - Mars looks nice...
Within this strand of What Priviliege we are looking at digital futures:
Who owns our imagination?
What futures, fears and opportunities are arising in times of near total commodification in the burgeoning empire of illusion?
We are working with Feral Arts and Darwin Community Arts on this project, with some crossover with our public art game development with Act Now Theatre and Fire Hazard Australia.
In November 2017 we worked with Feral Arts developing and scrutinizing ideas for Arts Front's digital futures campaigns.
We came up with a few funky concepts, a trailer for a web-based mini-series and a meme campaign concept.
Now we are working towards a presentation for ANAT's Digital Futures symposium.
What Privilege - Unlearn Supremacy
We are working with Fire Hazard Australia, Act Now Theatre and Nexus Arts to develop a playable pubic intervention art game based on our What Privilege model.
The first development stage included a series of intenisve development labs and participatory game workshops with participants from diverse backgrounds.
We are now working with Fire Hazard to further develop the game world and map out the task, roles and interventions based on our notice, disrupt and reframe methodolgy.
We also teamed up with Wild Light Projects to explore multimedia and video options for the work and support her to use the cards and What Privilege model as part of her CACD outreach.
Unity of Oppression - Nexus Arts Gallery
Adelaide, SA
Change Media and Nexus Arts, in collaboration with the Regional Gallery of Murray Bridge, present this experimental art exhibition as part of its national What Privilege? Initiative. Here is a sneak preview slideshow from the opening at Nexus Arts on April 5th:.
Update: Missed out? The Unity of Oppression will be on tour at the Regional Art Gallery Murray Bridge June 15 - July 22 2018.
And here is the slide show from the launch at Nexus Arts in April 2018:
‘What Privilege? - The unity of oppression’ explores what unites and divides us: We share a finite planet, what futures will we forge from the infinity of darkness? Each artist took up the challenge to respond to What Privilege? and find creative responses to the Unity of Oppression...
Playing with the duality of light and dark, using acrylics, sculpture and multi-media, five artists from culturally diverse backgrounds create a journey into the complexities of power, privilege and oppression - inviting you to peel away hidden layers and join them on a creative crime scene investigation of our shared humanity.
The Unity of Oppression works are co-led with interdisciplinary Ngarrindjeri-Chinese artist Damien Shen [painting, mixed media] and feature emerging artists Emilijia Kasumovic [drawing, mixed media] and Jelena Vujnovic [drawing], alongside work from Jen Lyons-Reid [line art, poetry, mixed media, sculpture] and Carl Kuddell [poetry, mixed media, sculpture].
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, and by the South Australian Government through Arts SA, with support by Nexus Arts and the Regional Gallery Murray Bridge.
List of Works for ‘What Privilege? - The unity of oppression’:
Damien Shen:
‘A message from God to the Blackfellow’, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 4 x 160x100cm
Emilija Kasumovic:
‘Interbeing’, 2017, mixed media on tulle, 100x70cm
‘Messenger from inner space’, 2018, mixed media on tulle, 80x150cm
Jelena Vujnovic:
'A person who returns’, 2018, mixed media on canvas, 5mx2m
Jen Lyons-Reid and Carl Kuddell:
’The Handshake’, 2018, mixed media on canvas, 294cmx207m
’Insert Face Here’, 2003/ 2018, sculpture, acrylic on wood, 1.8mx2mx1m
‘What Privilege?’, 2017, 50 printed character cards
Artists Statements:
Damien Shen: ‘A message from God to the Blackfellow’
A message from God to the Blackfellow, is an ongoing significant body of work by Ngarrindjeri-Chinese artist Damien Shen. In continuing his engagement with archives and museums, Shen draws on the encounters between Reverend George Taplin and the Ngarrindjeri people, to establish a thematic framework for this series. These encounters are drawn from Taplin’s diaries and give great detail on his engagement with Ngarrindjeri. Shen was particularly drawn to Taplin’s entry about a discussion with a ‘native’ on April the 7th, 1859.
“I then endeavoured to explain to him that I had a message from God to the Blackfellows, and what it was, and asked him to tell the others about it. He seemed to understand me but was evidently surprised. It is my impression at present that more will be done by individualising the natives than by teaching them collectively. I shall see how this idea is confirmed or otherwise bye-and-bye.”[1]
For these new works, Shen’s response to the righteous and paternalistic views of the times, which position his ancestors as inferior black subjects, takes the form of a series of large digital portraits, depicting his Ngarrindjeri elders, whom were photographed by Norman TIndal at Raukkan in South Australia. These mixed media works depict his family, displayed in a monochromatic and sombre palette.
A stark background frame their figures, a visual cue to the anthropological methods utilised in ‘documenting’ the Ngarrindjeri community. Whiteness didn’t just surround each of his forebears, but pervaded into their very being. They are submerged underneath a sheath of pale rhythmic dotting, ghosted in the virtues of whiteness while their selfhood was simultaneously erased by ‘well-meaning’ messengers of God, in state-sanctioned, publically funded assimilation machines.
Damien Shen is represented by MARS Gallery (Melbourne)
[1] Reverend George Taplin, The Journals of the Reverend George Taplin, Missionary to the Ngarrindjeri People of the Lower Murray, Lakes and the Coorong,1859 – 1879, 7 April 1859, http://www.firstsources.info/uploads/3/4/5/4/34544232/taplins_diary_1859-79.pdf
Emilija Kasumovic: ‘Interbeings’
“The head is the universe, it’s where everything happens. It’s where thoughts happen. Its shape, an oval, like an egg, is symbolic to suggest infinity.” David Altmejd, artist
Using painting and drawing on layers of sheer fabric, Emilija explores the mind’s ability to stretch beyond what we are conditioned to believe about our privileged state and position in the society.
The need for violence, war and division are all distorted search by us for pleasure and happiness, and therefore, generated by the egoistic principle and our identification with ‘form’. Our need for possession and dominance is how ego feeds and continually generates its power. Once we realize that our true self is not conditioned by form, or anything we can name, categorize and identify with, we dissolve into boundlessness.
‘Unless we get rid of our ego, there is no peace either for ourselves or for the others.”
Jelena Vujnovic: 'A person who returns’
Within this work I invite the audience to explore the fragmented nature of the remembered landscapes in my mind. I have used the forms of the Yugoslav monuments that sit in stark contrast to their organic landscapes. Monuments that stand grand and strong to commemorate lives affected and lost in times of war. The works invite the audience to engage, without offering the opportunity to be deciphered entirely.
We all have an endless layering of memories from experiences in different environments, while simultaneously, the environments are influenced by events that unfold in them. My travels back to Serbia and Croatia are a catalyst for new engagement with my old homes and the feedback between memory and environment continues, with each leaving a mark on the other.
My upbringing, exile and migrations are unique to me even though they are a common story. What we all share is the unique nature of experience, what divides us is the inability to fully understand each other’s experiences. To develop tolerance, I believe we need to let go of the need to define each other in absolutes and focus instead on acceptance. Acceptance gives way to respect, and therefore tolerance will grow.
Jen Lyons-Reid and Carl Kuddell:
What Privilege? cards, ’The Handshake’ and ’Insert Face Here’
We are exploring how to depict the messy, entangled interdependence and connectivity of power and privilege to renegotiate and reinvent our shared humanity.
50 What Privilege? cards, 2017
The satirical cards depict inevitable power and privileged behaviors we have identified over 20 years of co-creative practice. They are the provocation for our 2017-18 national project, ‘Creating Together – what can possibly go wrong?’ We invite audiences and collaborators to notice, disrupt and reframe colonizing mindsets through a series of Power-Tarot and role-play games.
‘The Handshake’, work-in-progress, 2018.
The laughable clowns of power shake hands, clothed in the emperor’s old quotes, a deal ritualized. The corporate wallpaper backdrop displays a thousand cartoons, an iconographic map of supremacy beliefs and oppressive slogans encoded in the fabric of culture. These colonizing mindsets are interconnected and simultaneously absurd and inevitable. The rules are rigged. Everyone is a player. We all know the game. In a global confluence of moral and metaphysical bankruptcy, what are we going to do about it? Pick a card, any card.
We focus on the wall as a negotiated space, using dialectical satire, street-art murals and branding to mirror the absurd wallpaper commodification of art. We believe Enlightenment philosophy is a colonial frame we are all acculturated into - class power, sexism, racism, ableism, capitalism… are all narratives that privilege selected people, who benefit from the oppression of the targeted. These stories are so deeply woven into our daily lives as natural, and/or historic, it can be confronting to explore our personal involvement, easier to blame it on a few bullies, ‘it’s not me’. Yet every human interaction is a negotiation, defining how we have control in our lives. We use cartoons as a playful tool to explore how we maintain power through ignorance.
‘Insert Face Here’, 2003/ 2018
All the interactivity of a funfair selfie, the foldout scene from the Woomera Detention Centre jailbreak in 2002 offers the viewer the opportunity to get into the picture. Will you be immortalized as the detainee or the enforcer, with the power to maintain the status quo? There were 21 million people seeking refuge worldwide 15 years ago, now there are 60 million. Australia detains thousands overseas, to protect ‘our’ borders.
In a Kafkaesque, out of sight, out of mind, bureaucratic brutality, people are destroyed to maintain the delusion of ‘our way of life’. We think the work, first shown at SALA 2003, remains disturbingly relevant 15 years later. Selfies welcome.
Artist Bios
Damien Shen:
Damien Shen is a South Australian man of Ngarrindjeri (Aboriginal) and Chinese descent. As an artist he draws on both of these powerful cultural influences to create works of intense personal meaning. In using his artistic talent to share his story he aims to open the eyes of viewers to new ways of seeing Australian identity and Aboriginal art.
Emilijia Kasumovic:
Emilija Kasumovic is Serbian born, living in Adelaide. Her work is concerned with human condition and what defines us as human beings beyond our biological bodies.
Jelena Vujnovic:
Fascinated by natural and artificial structures, Jelena Vujnovic sees the building blocks of our bodies and our urban environment as the scaffolding on which we construct our lives. Focused on an uninterrupted and organic development of her work, she is constantly playing and experimenting with new materials and forms.
Jen Lyons-Reid and Carl Kuddell:
Artistic director and graphic artist, Jen Lyons-Reid, and creative producer and writer, Carl Kuddell, are Tallstoreez Productionz co-founders and award-winning multidisciplinary artists and filmmakers. Since 2002 they have explored satire across art forms, from poetry, cartoons, sculptures, live art, to documentaries and several TV series. They run Change Media as a national arts initiative, focusing on critical literacy through arts and media. They have delivered hundreds of workshops and performances with thousands of participants across Australia. Their strategic advisory work includes investigations into value, equity and harm in socially engaged arts, as part of an ARC Linkage partnership with VCA in 2013-14 and Jen’s 2-year Australia Council Fellowship 2015-16.
Photos by Wild Light Projects - thanks Amanda for your amazing support.
©2018 Tallstoreez Productionz Pty Ltd and Change Media
Our Port Augusta Footprints
Aboriginal media training in Port Augusta through SA Film Corporation and Country Arts SA
Read moreWhat Privilege - Arts Access Victoria
My body is fantastic
We are working with Arts Access Victoria, arts and disbalilties workers and artists living with disabiliy in a series of workshops to develop provocative memes, mindbombs and public interventions for the disability and arts sectors.
Togehter we developed several frames and concept to speak to issues of social framing of disability vs the medical health model and how to bring new ways of thinking and engagement into the wider community.
We played several disruptive power and privilege games and went through the 50 cards to re-work some of the poetry and imagery.
Arts Access used the cards for several intensive workshops to examine their practice and audit projects, which Veronica Pardo, AAV's executitve director, described as an amazing experience and resounding success.
The next stage of the project will involve the development of a fully accessible tool kit based on the What Privilege cards and games, including a re-work of all text elements in Plan Langauge.
Creating Together
Creating Together 2017 July - SA
Creating Together is now integrated into our new What Privilege page here.
We have been successful with our recent Australia Council for the Arts funding submission. We are working now with our national partners [Arts Access Victoria, Weave Movement Disability Theatre, Visionary Images, Darwin Community Arts, Nexus Arts, University of Western Sydney and Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority] to develop the roll out with a diverse range of communities and new partners.
We are developing a prototype art-game to explore how we create better together. We will identify old patterns of power and privilege and explore how we can disrupt and reframe those values to collaboratively develop new narratives to work more equitably together. Our aim is to develop a wicked world engine for personal and collaborative systemic change through playful art-making, called 'Creating Together - what can possibly go wrong?', to be launched as a standalone initiative with a range of partners in 2018.
Creating Together - what can possibly go wrong?
Change Media will collaborate with a range of national partners on a cultural and creative competency / critical literacy initiative: ‘Creating Together - what can possible go wrong?’
Our initiative examines how privilege, power and underlying values determine our lenses/ frames - which impacts on our play, negotiation skills, solidarity, creative process and outcomes and advocacy across arts and social sectors.
Over the last two decades we have created frameworks to speak to power and privilege and with this project we want to explore and share the efficacy of this approach with frontline organisations.
Our current aim in collaborating with progressive culture organisations and their communities is to tailor the project, as a tool to positively challenge your project partners, community participants, funders and supporters, to reflect and reframe privileged narratives.
Our key aim is to provide imaginative tools for artists and advocates to increase critical literacy, playful self-determination and to enable creative re-imagining of our values.
We want to provoke and take risks together. We will creatively challenge project partners, funders and supporters, to address privilege, power and solidarity, so that we can build respectful, equitable and robust partnerships, that are able to withstand the push towards fear, bigotry and hatred and contribute to a progressive reframing of our shared narratives with our community participants.
We see an urgent need for an intersectional approach to social justice across arts and culture and we believe we need to create and improve on the tools now to change the conversations that will take place, even if we are not prepared...
Our current questions for the Creating Together tool kit:
Over the coming years, what are the key ingredients needed for solidarity across arts and social sectors?
How can we intersect with Arts Front campaigns and ensure mindfulness about privilege and power and ensure improve inclusive and accessible practice is implemented?
We want people who are dealing directly with the consequences of various forms of oppression to be involved in determining our strategies, and that the resulting tools are relevant for their campaigns and partnerships strategies.
After exploring this concept with our partners, we have identified solidarity and intersectionality as a great starting point to contribute to this urgently needed conversation across sectors and silos.
What is our process?
Solidarity
We will negotiate an effective working group to shape the lens of our creative toolkit - to explore power, privilege and the solidarity required to create together.
We will collaborate with progressive culture organisations [First Peoples, Disability, Youth, Migrants, Refugees, Diversity, Gender, Health, Advocacy] so that the creative tools embody and respond with an authentic, diverse voice.
Inter-connectivity
We will link to other values discussions, creative responses and campaigns running across the arts and social sectors, to enhance intersectionality, we will initiate this through our partners at Feral Arts and their Arts Front 2030 campaigns.
We will support the integration of these solidarity training toolkits/ recipes into our partners outreach and cultural competencies programs, as an artist-led awareness-raising program for partners and support agencies
Privilege Narratives
We will discuss and workshop our shared values and explore how privileged assumptions and systematic violence are baked into our practice and shared discourse.
Power Games
We will explore playful responses to open up the space to train and challenge ourselves, our participants, partners and the service agencies.
We will explore and create games that expose privilege narratives [my rights, good intentions, no choice, omission] – the thinking behind the thinking that drives oppressive actions that are often hidden from the privileged narrators.
Notice, Disrupt, Reframe, Negotiate, Create
We will create question thinking disruptions and reframes to create a new language of respect and justice that addresses all stages of arts production and partnership models
Other benefits
We want to co-create, have fun and play with creative thinkers and doers, to share and reflect on our practice and develop new actions and campaigns.
Please contact us if you and your organisation want to get involved.
Ngarrindjeri Culture Hub
Inaugural Ngarrindjeri Culture Hub exhibition in Murray Bridge, featuring a wide range of Ngarrindjeri artists and cultural practices
Read moreNgarrindjeri Shorts 2 - ABC
Ngarrindjeri Speaking For SeaCountry on ABC iView
Read morePower and Privilege - Arts Front 2030
Ngarrindjeri Yarluwar-Ruwe
Ngarrindjeri Yarluwar-Ruwe Partnership CLLMM evaluation - SA 2016
Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this website and videos links contains images and voices of people who have died.
Change Media in collaboration with the Ngarrindjeri media team produced a short evaluation video about the Ngarrindjeri partnerships in the delivery of the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLMM) Recovery Project.The video will be utilised as an evaluation and promotion product by NRA, Ngarrindjeri community and the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR).
The video features highlights of five years of work conducted by Ngarrindjeri under the CLLMM Recovery Project, and the significant positive impact this had on Ngarrindjeri community and lands and water, the program's successes, challenges and future vision.
Credits
Producer: Carl Kuddell
Director: Jennifer Lyons-Reid
Writers: Ngarrindjeri managers Luke Trevorrow, in consultation with the NRA Board, DENWR and in collaboration with Change Media
Production management: Luke Trevorrow, Laurie Rankine Jnr, Owen Love Jnr, Carl Kuddell
Director of Photography: Johanis Lyons-Reid
Camera: Johanis Lyons-Reid, Owen Love
Editors: Johanis Lyons-Reid
Sound recording: Carl Kuddell
Participants and contributors include:
Uncle Derek Walker
Prof. Daryle Rigney
Prof. Steve Hemming
Lachlan Sutherland
Uncle Major Sumner
Auntie Ellen Trevorrow
Ngarrindjeri community members
Ngarrindjeri heritage rangers
Tal Kin Jeri dancers
Ngarrindjeri Media Team
Acknowledgements:
The Coorong Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth Recovery Project is funded by the South Australian Government’s Murray Futures program and the Australian Government.
This Ngarrindjeri Partnership Porject evaluation video is a part of the Coorong Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth Recovery Project, funded by the South Australian Government’s Murray Futures program and the Australian Government.
©2016 Ngarrindjeri and Change Media
Partners - Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, Ngopamuldi Aboriginal Corporation, South Australian Government Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, Urimbirra Wildlife Park Victor Harbor
We Are Water People
2016 June - Coorong, Lakes and Murray River, SA
Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this website and videos links contains images and voices of people who have died.
Change Media and Ngarrindjeri collaborated on a short web-documentary, as an engaging promotional tool for Ngarrindjeri and DEWNR, to showcase the significance of Ngarrindjeri science and cultural understanding of the Murray Mouth, the Murray River, the Lower Lakes and the Coorong.
The documentary features significant Ngarrindjeri cultural and caring for country practices and locations along the Murray River, the Lower Lakes, Coorong and the Murray Mouth, to highlight the spiritual connection between Ngarrindjeri and their lands and waters.
The documentary follows the narration script and storyboard developed by NRA, Change Media and DEWNR in late 2015, with a voice-over performed by Ngarrindjeri elder Ellen Trevorrow.
Credits
Producer: Carl Kuddell
Director: Jennifer Lyons-Reid
Writers: Ngarrindjeri managers Luke Trevorrow, Clyde Rigney Jnr and Laurie Rankine Jnr, in consultation with the NRA Board, DENWR and in collaboration with Change Media
Production management: Luke Trevorrow, Laurie Rankine Jnr, Owen Love Jnr, Carl Kuddell
Director of Photography: Johanis Lyons-Reid
Camera: Johanis Lyons-Reid, Owen Love
Editors: Johanis Lyons-Reid, Jennifer Lyons-Reid
Narrator: Ngarrindjeri Elder Ellen Trevorrow
Sound recording: Carl Kuddell
Participants and contributors include:
Auntie Ellen Trevorrow
Uncle Bud
Uncle Major Sumner
Prof. Daryle Rigney
Prof. Steve Hemming
Margaret Sexton
Ngarrindjeri community members
Ngarrindjeri heritage rangers
Tal Kin Jeri dancers
Ngarrindjeri Media Team
Laurie, Owen, Johnny and Daryl. Arnold, Lalo
Funded through the South Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water and Natural Resources and the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority
©2016 Ngarrindjeri and Change Media
Partners
Department of the Environment, Water and Natural Resources
Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association
Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority
Urimbirra Wildlife Park Victor Harbor
Ngarrindjeri Shorts 1 - ABC
Everything is Connected - Ngarrindjeri Shorts 1 - ABC iView - 2016 January - SA
Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this website and videos links contains images and voices of people who have died.
For Ngarrindjeri, everything is connected. Join their elders Ellen Trevorrow and Major Sumner on country as they share stories of art, culture and survival. We collaborated with Ngarrindjeri to create a beautiful web series for the inaugural Ngarrindjeri Culture Hub, linking Ngarrindjeri art, culture and country.
The Ngarrindjeri weaving, dancing and wood-carving videos showcase Ngarrindjeri culture and invite people to visit and participate in cultural activities at Camp Coorong. They were created during a series of multi-arts and capacity-building workshops with Ngarrindjeri communities in 2016.
The 4x 7min series is available on ABC’s iView arts channel under the title ‘Ngarrindjeri Shorts’. Click on the images below to watch all four episodes.
FInd 30sec trailers for Everything is Connected here:
Everything Is Connected - Ngarrindjeri Dance - 30 sec Trailer - PLAY FILM
Everything Is Connected - Ngarrindjeri Weaving - 30 sec Trailer - PLAY FILM
Everything Is Connected - Ngarrindjeri Carving - 30 sec Trailer - PLAY FILM
Click here for Ngarrindjeri Shorts season 2 - Ngarrindjeri Speaking for SeaCountry.
News flash - Thursday May 19th, 2016:
Everything Is Connected has been nominated for the Official Selection of the International Melbourne WebFest 2016! We are also nominated for Best Non-Fiction [Australia] and Best Cinematography [International]!!!
The series also was nominated for the 2016 SA Screen Awards and will screen on ABC iView in July 2016. And we can now announce that we have received funding from the Australia Council for the Arts for a Ngarrindjeri Culture Hub, which will include another web series featuring Ngarrindjeri artists and cultural stories.
Big congrats to our team both at Ngarrindjeri and Change Media - and a huge thanks to everyone involved and our partners and friends for all your support!
Together with our community partners, the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority and the Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association, we delivered a series of multi-arts community engagement and capacity-building workshops in 2015-2016, to transmit Ngarrindjeri culture to young leaders and simultaneously created three new digital media works: Ngarrindjeri Carving with Elder Major Sumner and community members, Ngarrindjeri Dancing with Tal Kin Jeri dance group, and Ngarrindjeri Weaving with Elder Auntie Ellen Trevorrow and community members.
The inter-generational cultural exchange during the workshops, masterclasses and co-creative productions supported core elements of Ngarrindjeri cultural and arts activities.
The artworks, artifacts and a series of engaging cinema quality multimedia artworks are now being used by Ngarrindjeri to communicate culture and connection to country to the wider community.
Production credits
Producers: Carl Kuddell
Series Director: Jennifer Lyons-Reid
Director: Johanis Lyons-Reid
Developed by: Clyde Rigney Jnr, Luke Trevorrow and Laurie Rankine Jnr, Jennifer Lyons-Reid, Carl Kuddell and Johanis Lyons-Reid, in consultation with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority and Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association
Production management: Luke Trevorrow, Laurie Rankine Jnr
Director of Photography: Johanis Lyons-Reid
Assistant Camera: Laurie Rankine Jnr, Owen Love
Editor & Post-Production: Johanis Lyons-Reid
Sound recording: Carl Kuddell, Laurie Rankine Jnr
Participants and contributors include
Auntie Ellen Trevorrow
Uncle Major Moogy Sumner
Ngarrindjeri community members
Alice Abdulla
Edith Carter
Latoya Love
Harmony Love
Bessie Rigney
Cheyenne Carter
Thomas Trevorrow
Tal Kin Jeri dancers
Loretta Sumner
Krissa Sumner
Major Sumner
Stacia Sumner
Lianna Sumner
Tyrone Lindsay
Jordon Karpany
Damien Wanganeen
Ryan Knowles
Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority team
Clyde Rigney Jnr
Luke Trevorrow
Laurie Rankine Jnr
Owen Love
Supported by:
Australia Council for the Arts
Arts SA
Change Media
Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association
Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority
Natural Resources Management Board SA Murray Darling Basin
The Rural City of Murray Bridge
Alexandrina Council
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, and the South Australian Government through Arts SA.
Escape from Cloud 9 - Sydney exhibition
Jen Lyons-Reid Australia Council CACD Fellowship - exploring narratives and digital workflows
Jen collaborated with Francesca Da Rimini and Carl Kuddell on this cartoon work, as a contribution to the Affliated Text's exhibition 'Selfie: Image Narrative Opiate', curated by Bronia Iwanczak and Lynne Barwick.
Together we developed the concept and text work, and Jennifer produced the graphic art and lettering.
The Selfie exhibition took place between Sep 9th 2015 and Oct 16th 2015, at Cross Art Books, at 33 Rosluyn Street, Kings Cross, Sydney.
Contribution to Hexen zine
2015 April - SA
Jen and Carl were invited by artist Francesca Da Rimini to contribute to her collaborative zine 'Hexen', presented at Copenhagen, Denmark and London. This collaboration was part of the first stage artistic exploration for Jen's 2-year Australia Council Fellowship.
The invitation was to respond to a series of challenges and to a selection of medieval art works, referenced in the final magazine art work.
Jen's graphic art Hex, This Is Not A Trap:
Carl's poetic Hex, Nine Reflections:
Nation to Nation - Aboriginal Authorities
Aboriginal Regional Authorities Initiative SA 2015 February - SA
Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that this website and videos links contains images and voices of people who have died.
In collaboration with the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, we produced Nation to Nation, a 25min documentary about the new South Australian Government Aboriginal Regional Authorities (ARA) initiative. The video showcases the benefits and opportunities of Aboriginal Regional Authorities in the context of colonization and new approaches for respectful governance and support for Indigenous representation in SA.
It features the four selected trial groups at their different stages of development and implementation:
Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority - Murraylands, Lower Lakes, Coorong and South Coast
Narungga Regional Authority - Yorke Penisula and surrounding islands
Kaurna Heritage Board - wider Adelaide area
Aboriginal Community Engagement Group Port Augusta and surrounding areas
The documentary features the views of Indigenous key leaders, detailing the process, development, and envisaged and current best practice and future outlook for each participating Aboriginal Authority, in Murray Bridge, Port Augusta, Point Pierce and Port Adelaide. Each trial group cover aspects of the five key issues and activities, ranging from Indigenous governance and leadership initiatives, Working on Country programs, to cultural engagement and Indigenous authority and self determination.
The project started development in October 2014, shooting across regional SA in 5 locations between November 2014 and January 2015.
Thanks for all the amazing community support
Kaurna Nation Heritage Association Inc
Living Kaurna Culture Centre
ART Employment
Peachey Place Community Centre
Kauwi Interpretive Centre SA Water
Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
Narungga Aboriginal Corporation Regional Authority
Point Pearce Aboriginal Corporation
Point Pearce Aboriginal Health Service - SA Health
Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority
Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Contracting
Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association
The Rural City of Murray Bridge
Aboriginal Community Engagement Group ACEG Port Augusta
Port Augusta Aboriginal Family Violence Legal Services
Port Augusta Youth Centre
Bungala Aboriginal Corporation
Davenport Community
Port Augusta City Council
Pricewaterhousecooper Indigenous Consulting Pty Ltd
Thanks to our funders:
The South Australian Government
Department of State Development - Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation
Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority and Change Media
Developed with support from Arts SA Strategic Community Partnerships
© 2015 South Australian Government
Department of State Development - Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Change Media and Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority