Word: yirrkala
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rains came, Yunupingu, an expert in art and bush medicine, had been foraging for yam. Now, as well as the category five storm to worry about, there's her exhibition debut in Paris looming on the horizon, and the mother of four has returned to her community near Yirrkala to paint. As it transpires, over the course of the next few days Monica manages to sidestep Yirrkala, hitting the coast 300 km west at Maningrida, but what begins to form on Yunupingu's bark canvas bound for France has some of its meteorological power. Here the artist's field...
...stringybark by a now unknown artist, the white ibis was depicted in the X-ray style expressed in rock art for thousands of years. Bound for the then National Museum of Victoria, Aboriginal art made its first serious impression on Western eyes. Fifty years later, the people of Yirrkala revived the tradition for a historic land claim in Australia's federal parliament, with the so-called "bark petition"; one of its authors was Yunupingu's father, Munggurruwuy. In humble ocher on bark, it demonstrated Aboriginal art's importance as a cultural document, and its power to change lives...
...Collaboration is the cornerstone of Aboriginal art practice, and nowhere was this more apparent than at Papunya, 250 dirt kilometers west of Alice Springs. Around the same time as the Yirrkala people were presenting their bark petition to parliament, hundreds of desert nomads were gathering at the settlement as part of the government's assimilation policy. Far from their Pintupi, Arrernte, Warlpiri and Luritja homelands, the Papunya mob were caught in "the agony of exile," Perkins has written. Driving his VW into town in 1971, Sydney art teacher Geoffrey Bardon wasn't thinking of starting a revolution. But by encouraging...
With the festival's Body Dreaming, process is all. An outdoor showcase of the body painting, initiation and men's ceremonies of the Yirrkala region of northeast Arnhem Land, it was a show more organic than organized. On opening night, indigenous women in the audience cackled, men heckled and a singing elder left the stage coughing in mid-performance. For white audiences, it was a matter of leaving behind the assumptions of Western theater. Enacted on a red-dirt stage at dusk, it brought a sense of simple ritual to Adelaide. "That's it for tonight," said Body Dreaming...
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