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Artist Hayley Millar Baker (Gunditjmara/Djabwurrung) joins Anna Zagala, Associate Curator at Samstag Museum of Art, to discuss her moving image work, Nycyninasty (2021) currently screening at Samstag as part of the 4th Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony curated by Hetti Perkins for the NGA. 

Hayley shares what prompted her to pivot from photography to moving image, how the pressure of the pandemic lockdowns created a shift in her work, and what fuels her art practice.

ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide. The conversation was recorded on 30 October 2023.

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In 2022 Samstag Museum of Art and ACMI commissioned a new moving image work by award winning Bundjulung/Ngapuhi artist Amrita Hepi. Ahead of Samstag’s presentation of Scripture for a smoke screen: Episode 1 – dolphin house (SASA Gallery, 7 July – 11 August 2023), Associate Curator Anna Zagala sits down with the artist to discuss the genesis of the project and her interest in NASAs 1960s 'dolphin house' experiment that attempted to teach dolphins human language in the hope that it would help them learn how to communicate with extraterrestrial life, what training in choreography and a background in the theatre taught her, and why music videos are a source of inspiration.

ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide. The conversation was recorded on 25 May 2023.

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DRAF Broadcasts: Live with Shezad Dawood and Professor Madeleine van Oppen

Professor van Oppen's work finding ways to enable coral reefs to adapt better to rapid changes in ocean conditions and her approach to making her findings more accessible to the public have been a key touchstone for Dawood's thinking whilst developing his Leviathan. Dawood's Leviathan Cycle is an ambitious ten-part film cycle (currently five are completed), that also incorporates textiles, sculptures, and neons. 

In dialogue with a wide range of marine biologists, oceanographers, political scientists, neurologists and trauma specialists, Leviathan envisages a future not far from our present but one that has been effected by a catastrophic solar incident to consider possible links between borders, mental health and marine welfare. Each episode is taken from the point of view of a different character and their journey.

The different types of work in his Leviathan project collectively examine and reimagine the fault lines between marine welfare, mental health and migration.

In the podcast the two discuss the work Professor van Oppen is currently doing in Australia, where she is part of two scientific teams are finding ways to repair some of the damage humans have inflicted on the marine environment as a whole and coral reefs in particular. Working to help protect the reefs against the disastrous effects of climate warming, Professor van Oppen explains what assisted evolution and hybridisation are and how they can help.

Dawood is interested in the philosophical and ethical aspects of this, as well as in shaping his interest in what he calls "speculative futures", where imagining where we might be also helps create a better helps an awareness of the present (from 2:33). 

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Find out more about Professor van Oppen and her team's work in the Great Barrier Reef.

Leviathan has presented a dynamic Public Programme, bringing together many other specialists from the fields of marine welfare, migration and mental health that the artist has been in dialogue with to inform the project. You can view all the talks here. 

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