WATER RITES Film Screening Part 1 | Outgoing Tide

Film Screening
20 October 2021
Animated image that read 'water carries data'.
Animated image that read 'water carries data'.

Join us for an online viewing in two parts, of the international films featured in WATER RITES

When

20 October 2021

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This screening program extends the themes of WATER RITES through an array of international films centering water as a subject, giving voice to water, its rhythms, needs, memories and desires. Here water is positioned as a potent non-human agent; as holder of culture, knowledge and memories, as matrix, healer and muse; and also as usurper, with deadly powers of breaking up, drowning, dissolving.

The program is presented in two parts, with four films shown in each half of the exhibition timeframe.

Part 1 provides a basis for deepening understanding around contemporary hydropolitics and the effects of extractivism, discussing digital colonialism (DEEP DOWN TIDAL); mineral resources capitalism (WHAT IS DEEP SEA MINING? EPISODE 4: A DEEP SEA MINING GLOSSARY and UNDEREXPOSED); forced migration and climate crisis (4 WATERS/DEEP IMPLICACY). (Time, like the tide, is running out.) 

Films:

  • Tabita Rezaire, DEEP DOWN TIDAL 2017 single channel video sound, 21 minutes

  • inhabitants/Margarida Mendes, WHAT IS DEEP SEA MINING? EPISODE 4: A DEEP SEA MINING GLOSSARY 2019, single channel video, sound, 5 minutes 40 seconds

  • Libby Harward, UNDEREXPOSED/OVER- EXTRACTED 2020, single channel video sound, 7 minutes 35 seconds

  • Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman, 4 WATERS/DEEP IMPLICACY 2019, single channel video, sound, 31 minutes

Followed by a 20 minute Q+A with WATER RITES Curator, Danni Zuvela and participating artist, Libby Harward. 

Feature Image: Tabita Rezaire, DEEP DOWN TIDAL 2017 single channel video sound, 21 minutes

Lead Artists

Tabita Rezaire,
inhabitants/Margarida Mendes,
Libby Harward,
Denise Ferreira da Silva,
Arjuna Neuman

WATER RITES is presented as part of Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art.

This project is supported by SA Water, Arts South Australia and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Artists
Event Partners

ACE tampinthi, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka panpapanpalyarninthi (inparrinthi). Kaurna miyurna yaitya mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlu tampinthi. Yalaka Kaurna miyurna itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, puru tangka martulayinthi.

ACE respectfully acknowledges the traditional Country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and pays respect to Elders past and present. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land. We acknowledge that they are of continuing importance to the Kaurna people living today.

ACE tampinthi, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka panpapanpalyarninthi (inparrinthi). Kaurna miyurna yaitya mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlu tampinthi. Yalaka Kaurna miyurna itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, puru tangka martulayinthi.

ACE respectfully acknowledges the traditional Country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains and pays respect to Elders past and present. We recognise and respect their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship with the land. We acknowledge that they are of continuing importance to the Kaurna people living today.