Spirits make noise, 2019
Art: Maddison Gibbs
Whale sonograph: Brian Miller, Australian Antarctic Division
Animation: Lisa Roberts
Dreaming-mind is all about connecting abstract and tangible knowledge using metaphors in "...images, dance, song, language, culture, objects, ritual, gestures and more. Feedback loops between the worlds must be completed with practical actions". (Yunkaporta, 2019, p.171)
Spirits make noise
Whale sings with Barkindji spirit
Antarctic flows
Glacial flows sing.
In summer we spawn in open water
Krill begins to tell her story.
Oceanic Sydney
Terrestrial and marine life connects through dance.
Spirits make noise, 2019
Art: Maddison Gibbs
Whale sonograph: Brian Miller, Australian Antarctic Division
Animation: Lisa Roberts
'Spirits make noise' is part of the 2020 Seeding Treaties installation at Mawson station, Antarctica, that was made for people on the ice to play animations to welcome the whales and to celebrate winter solstice.
The Seeding Treaties installation, Jan 2020, with animations made with scientists and other artists, and set to music by Jason Benedek. The installation evolves as new stories are shared.
"Our land itself contains the power to seed and grow Treaty - all we have to do is grasp and wield this powerful force, visually, scientifically, and musically."
Elizabeth Shepherd,
Indigenous Australian musician and composer, writer and artist
May 28, 2019
