The Ocean Remembers, features video by Jody Haines and photographs by Ali Baker.
(Re)membering to Listen, Jody Haines, palawa, (2023) is a single channel projection work, extracted from a larger seven channel work called Against the Wind, featuring a surround soundscape. The work was filmed on tommeginne Country, lutruwita (Tasmania), where I created a visual interpretation of my Standpoint and a love letter to Country. This work follows the ‘slipstreams of songlines’, remembering and relearning, deep listening and breathing.
Sovereign Fleet, (2013), is a series of photo portraits of women by Ali Gumillya Baker. Using the symbolism of 18th and 19th century transport ships her works refer to colonial archives, memory and intergenerational transmission of knowledge. Her photographs suggest a contemporary retort to the colonial representations of Aboriginal women. For Gumillya Baker, it is through art and performance, and research into the colonial archive that sovereignty is continually demonstrated and asserted.
By by focussing on the process of remembering, the exhibition provides the audience with an opportunity to consider the notion of ‘ocean as witness and source’.
Artists
Jody Haines
Ali Baker