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International Indigenous Art in Motion , 2005 Endnotes Rebecca BELMORE Stop(the)Gap: International Indigenous art in motion 1 26 January, 1988, known annually born 1960, Upsala, Ontario, Canada 24 February – 21 April 2011 as Australia Day, was Australia’s Anishinaabe-Canadian A Samstag Museum of Art and 2011 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival Project bicentennial, an event for which the The Named and the Unnamed, 2002 Curator: Brenda L Croft national slogan was ‘Celebration of video installation, 38:25 minutes a nation’, presenting a white-washed Collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Published by the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art visage of the country. The day The University of British Columbia University of South Australia became known as Invasion/Survival oward Ursuliak oward GPO Box 2471, Adelaide SA 5001 H Day for Indigenous people and works of list Purchased with the financial support of the Canada their supporters. A satirical view is Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program T 08 8302 0870 that it is the official celebration of and the Morris and Helen Belkin Foundation, 2005 E [email protected] Australia’s first boat people or illegal W unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum immigrants. Dana CLAXTON Copyright © the artists, author and University of South Australia 2 Prime Minister Julia Gillard, ABC born 1959, Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada Radio National, 26 January, 2011. All rights reserved. This publication is copyright. Except as permitted Hunkpapa, Lakota Sioux Born in Wales in 1961, Gillard under the Copyright Act, no part of this publication may be reproduced , 2002, photograph by Rattle, 2003 emigrated with her family to by any process, electronic or otherwise, without permission in writing Adelaide in 1966. four channel digital video installation, sound, 11:25 minutes from the publisher. Neither may information be stored electronically 3 ������������������������������Further opinions can be viewed courtesy the artist at Lisa Pryor, ‘Flying the flag for in any form whatsoever without such permission. an upside-down kind of patriotism’, Alan MICHELSON ISBN 978-0-9807175-4-9 Sydney Morning Herald, 6 January, 2007. Mark Seymour, ‘Australia. born 1953, Buffalo, New York, USA Samstag Museum of Art Director: Erica Green I love it, but leave me out of the flag Six Nations Mowhawk Turtle Clan Curator: Exhibitions and Collection: Emma Epstein waving’, The Age, 24 January, 2010. TwoRow II, 2005 Coordinator: Scholarships and Communication: Rachael Elliott 4 Harold Thomas, a Luritja/Wombai four channel digital video installation, sound, 13:05 minutes Samstag Administrator: Jane Wicks man from central Australia, living The Named and the Unnamed National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2006 Curatorial Assistant: Sarah Wall E, in Adelaide, designed the Aboriginal Helpmann Academy Intern: Lara Merrington OR flag, ‘created as a symbol of unity Nova PAUL and national identity for Aboriginal Graphic Design: Sandra Elms Design born 1973, Aotearoa/New Zealand people during the land rights Printing: FiveStarPrint movement of the early 1970s’. Te Uri Ro Roi and Te Parawhau/Ng Puhi tribe First flown on the National Aborigines This Is Not Dying, 2010 ebecca BELM The Samstag Museum of Art expresses grateful appreciation of our R Day March in Adelaide, 1971. 16mm film (digital transfer), sound, 20:00 minutes partner, 2011 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival, with particular thanks www.aiatsis.gov.au/fastfacts/ courtesy the artist AboriginalFlag.html to Katrina Sedgwick and Adele Hann, and most importantly we extend of the powhiri welcoming ceremony. The Stranded is Thornton’s first foray into our very special acknowledgement and gratitude to the curator, 5 Cold Chisel formed in Adelaide in Lisa REIHANA fluttering fingertips of the sensual M ori creating work specifically for the white cube; the early 1970s, disbanded in 1983 Brenda L Croft; international curatorial advisors Kathleen Ash-Milby (USA), born 1964, Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand wahine, her moko and make-up immaculate, being the cultural revolutionary that he is, and reformed in 2009. Paul Kelly Megan Tamati-Quennell (Aotearoa/NZ) and David Garneau (Canada); and Indigenous musician/activist Kev Ng Puhi: Ng ti Hine, Ng i Tu tribe hum even in the silence as she performs the he has created a vision in three dimensions, and participating artists for making Stop(the)Gap: International Carmody’s song, ‘From little things, Groundswell, 2002 Indigenous art in motion possible by their enthusiastic participation. karanga, followed by the appearance of with himself placed innermost as the central big things grow’, is widely regarded eight channel digital video installation, sound, 30:00 minutes as an unofficial anthem depicting four striking, feminine winds – North, South, Christ-like figure – dead centre, if you like courtesy the artist and ARTPROJECTS, New Zealand Curator’s acknowledgments East and West – heralded by digitised, – with the unexpected addition of a skull Aboriginal resistance to European domination and the start of the Te Po O Matariki, 2010 I wish to acknowledge and pay my respects to the traditional custodians kaleidoscopically-dazzling patterns, ever- and crossbones. Thornton’s figure revolves national land rights movement. video, 13:30 minutes of the country in which this project is being held, the Kaurna people, shifting and ever-changing. in space above a mirrored waterhole in the 6 The Racial Discrimination Act courtesy the artist and ARTPROJECTS, New Zealand their ancestors and their descendants to come; my respects for having brilliant harshness of the broken heartland, was suspended in 2007 to enable me as an Aboriginal visitor, living and working in your country. Groundswell (2005) is an intimate series of heightened by the unnerving sounds of wide the NT Emergency Response, aka Warwick THORNTON landscape vignettes of the living, breathing, The Intervention, under the aegis Stop(the)Gap would not have been possible without the support of open spaces – the chirruping of native birds, born 1970, Alice Springs, Australia corporeal terra firma of Ngawha Springs in of the Federal Liberal Government. many individuals, organisations and institutions. I particularly extend my the ubiquitous blowfly buzz, the whoomp- The Basics Card was introduced Kaytej language group appreciation and thanks to the Samstag Museum of Art and 2011 BigPond Tai Tokerau, North Island – Reihana’s father’s ing sensation of windmill... or wind turbine? as part of the enforced Income Stranded, 2011 Adelaide Film Festival for inviting me to curate this project, and for the traditional lands. Bubbling mineral springs Management Scheme, which 3D digital video, sound, 11:06 minutes Dream(ing) or nightmare, or both? generous support and encouragement of all their staff. appear to invoke the spirits of the ancestors, effectively placed Aboriginal producer: Fiona Pakes; editor: David Gross; production Very special thanks to curatorial advisory colleagues and friends Kathleen unhappy with the deleterious impact Laconic in his desire to discuss the work, people in affected communities designer: Sam Wilde; sound designer: Liam Egan; back on ‘rations’. digital colourist: Trish Cahill; compositer: Ben Blick-Hodge; Ash-Milby, David Garneau and Megan Tamati-Quennell and also for their of mining which began in the late 19th Thornton invests it with a sharp satirical edge 7 ‘Aboriginal’ is written in the lower stills compositing and grade: Jeremy Saunders respective institutions’ support, and to Nunga woman Yhonnie Scarce, and literal flavour: for a limited time viewers case in Canada in relation to century and has since generated a damaged courtesy the artist, produced by Scarlett Pictures with who has been a joy to mentor. will be able to collect a limited-edition cup Indigenous or First Nations people. moonscape. At the time of shooting the the kind support of AFTRS, Panavision Australia and As always, this project would be nothing without the spirit, strength and of popcorn – FREE!! – adorned with a still 8 Further information on this period, work these homelands were held in private see ‘The US-Dakota War’, www. Definition Films, commissioned by Adelaide Film Festival vision of the artists: Rebecca Belmore, Dana Claxton, Alan Michelson, Nova control, up for sale, and haunted by the from the work. Roll up, roll up, get ’em mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/ Investment Fund 2011 Paul, Lisa Reihana and Warwick Thornton – you are all too deadly! As are incarcerated living souls of M ori confined while they last! No sacrificial lamb in his mnstatehistory/thedakotaconflict. Genevieve Grieves and r e a, with their outdoor projections at Port Adelaide. taped-up cowboy boots, sweat-stained hat html in the nearby prison. Reihana writes that the 9 Further reading: the artist’s The Samstag Museum gratefully acknowledges its sponsors and taonga of the site has been invested with a and scarified, clawed-up torso, Thornton’s biography, 17th Biennale of Sydney, ‘melancholic and post-apocalyptic air’. figure is one of redemption and sacrifice. 2010, www.bos17.com/biennale/ exhibition partners. artist/21 Warwick Thornton is a Kaytej man from How many more years will we continue to 10 Six Nations originally comprised central Australia, whose customary lands be written out of our shared histories – not five powerful Indian tribes or reside to the north of Alice Springs where just pushed to the margins (white spaces Nations: the Mohawk, Onondaga, Seneca, Cayuga and Oneida, which for Indigenous people) but off the edges, artist the © 2011, Fund Investment Festival Film Adelaide by commissioned still, film 2011, (detail), he has lived the majority of his life. A film- collectively founded The League maker of singularly distinctive vision, his first re-investing in a utopian vision of white- of Peace, or Iroquois Confederacy. The Confederacy governed with feature, Samson and Delilah (2009), took washed looping recollections, smiling faces, Stranded colonial spaces? 1492, 1788, 1840, 1862, a council of fifty chiefs elected by , the national and international film world by ON female elders from each Nation, and T storm. Winning numerous awards, including 1901, 1967, 1971, 1988, 2007, 2011..
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