Join Lisa Reihana and Mykaela Saunders, in conversation with Ellen Van Neerven, as they discuss their practices of storytelling around Indigenous histories and futures connected to the Great Ocean.
In her film GROUNDLOOP, Lisa Reihana imagines a future where the ocean is a superhighway – an everyday connector between Indigenous voyagers from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia; while in Always Will Be, Mykaela Saunders imagines a future version of the Tweed and how the local Goori community might reassert sovereignty while practising creative, ancestrally approved ways of living with changing climates.
This conversation has been convened in collaboration with Ellen Van Neerven.
Program:
5:30pm: Complimentary refreshments available.
6:00pm: Conversation with Mykaela Saunders and Lisa Reihana chaired by Ellen Van Neerven.
7:00pm: Explore the exhibition How We Remember Tomorrow.
Image: Lisa Reihana. GROUNDLOOP, 2022. single channel digital video with multi-layered audio. Collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales. Commissioned with funds provided by the Art Gallery of New South Wales Foundation, Creative New Zealand and the following visionary donors: Anna Dudek and Brad Banducci, Simon Johnson and David Nichols, Michael Martin and Elizabeth Popovski, The Papas Family, Bill and Karen Robinson, Rae-ann Sinclair and Nigel Williams, and Jenny and Andrew Smith 2022. © Lisa Reihana. 348.2022.
