Cirrus@Austlit

'Black Wattle is a keeping place: a collection of poetry, photography, collage and illustration developed by this mob arts collective over the last 12 months.

'“Warmth, respect, and strength thread our conversations together. We map our connections and disconnections from one another, but also from ourselves. We celebrate the things we have been able to do together and imagine the things we haven’t been able to do together.” – this mob, 2021

'this mob is a blak arts collective based on Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri lands. We centre and prioritise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the work that we do, creating spaces to come together to unite emerging blak artists.'(Publication summary)

'Experience a youth-driven, Blak arts intervention as dis rupt takes over Hamer Hall for a groundbreaking afternoon of live music, performance and visual arts.

For the first time, a young team of ten emerging First Nations creatives led by Kate ten Buuren (Taungurung) with the support of Kalyani Mumtaz (Trawlwoolway) and Cienan Muir (Yorta Yorta and Ngarrindjeri) present new work made specifically for Hamer Hall.

Be submerged in story, song, dance, immersive installation and performance from the point of view of young First Nations creatives. Responding to the stories of the land on which the hall rests, the Birrarung and its waterways, dis rupt promises a surprising glimpse into the future of Blak creative arts.'

Source: Yirramboi Festival.

'The venue rests on the bank of the Birrarung – the River of Mists. The exhibition asks ‘How do diasporic First Peoples connect to water? How do young blakfullas imagine the future of their lands?’ dis ruptwill open up closed doors and bring life to stories that have never been heard within Hamer Hall.'

Source: Arts Centre Melbourne.

'I am a woman of the Kulin Nations; a Taungurung Traditional Owner living and working on the lands of the Wurundjeri people. I am an artist and curator, and I create work that allows me to investigate my family stories and connect more deeply with ancestral knowledge and practices. I use hand-crafted and found objects as well as film, photography, movement and language to talk about my experience as a young blak person, which quite often critiques oppressive colonial structures and art norms that don't allow me to move freely in the ways that I wish I could. Curatorially, I investigate ways to create spaces that centre blakness, and challenge the hegemonic ideas of what a gallery or exhibition space is, and what you can do in them.' (Introduction)

Winjara Wiganhanyin (Why We All Die) is the first animation produced by the Taungurung (Victoria) Dolodanin-dat Animation Project Group. Winjara Wiganhanyin has been developed from an amalgamation of the Taungurung creation stories retold and handed down through generations and various publications.