“….   A rare opportunity to engage directly with experimental art and new media makers from Desert communities.”   Hetti Perkins

Convened by Dr Jennifer Biddle and Dr Lisa Stefanoff  (NIEA, UNSW Art & Design), the symposium presents for the first time to a Sydney audience, the innovation, dynamism and activism of an emergent ‘remote’ Central and Western desert avant-garde whose innovative art-making and emergent aesthetics is literally life-making: revivifying threatened vernacular languages, cultural traditions and intangible heritage and requiring new forms of engagement and encounter.

 

Image: Lizzie Ellis 'Still #3, Tjawina Porter at Kuruyurltu' still image from film 'Kuruyurltu', shot by Matthew Woodham. Copyright Tjarlirli Art 2014