WATER RITES Film Screening Part 2 | Incoming Tide

Film Screening
17 November 2021
Artwork of animal on land looking out on water. Sky is created from upside down image of people and houses.
Artwork of animal on land looking out on water. Sky is created from upside down image of people and houses.

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

When

Online Event

17 November 2021

This screening program extends the themes of WATER RITES through an array of international films centreing 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 2 shares traditional knowledge, practices and stories in non-linear (VISIONS OF AN ISLAND) and decolonial forms (water sleep II Akaike river under Xizang Road); and through protecting and sharing knowledge (TJAETSIE/KNOW HOW and MENAPTWI).(We need to get our heads above water and come in together.) Films:

  • Skye Hopinka, VISIONS OF AN ISLAND 2016, single channel video, sound, 15 minutes

  • Su Yu-Hsin, water sleep II Akaike river under Xizang Road 2019, single channel video, sound, 10 minutes 24 seconds

  • Sissel M. Bergh, TJAETSIE/KNOW HOW 2017, single channel video, soundtrack by Maja Solveig Kjeldstrup Ratkje featuring deep sea recordings, 18 minutes

  • Natasha Naveau, MENAPTWI (SMOKED) 2018, 16mm transferred to digital video, sound, 5 minutes 20 seconds

 Followed by a 20 minute Q+A with WATER RITES Curator, Danni Zuvela and Tarnanthi Artistic Director, Nici Cumpston.

Feature Image: Skye Hopinka, VISIONS OF AN ISLAND 2016, single channel video, sound, 15 minutes

Screen Artists

Natasha Naveau,
Sissel M. Bergh,
Su Yu-Hsin,
Skye Hopinka

Speaker

Danni Zuvela,
Nici Cumpston

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

ACErlu tampinthi, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka inparrinthi. Kaurna miyurna yaitya yarta-mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlurlu tampinthi. Yalaka Kaurna miyurna itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, puru tangka martulayinthi. Ngadlurlu tampinthi purkana pukinangku, yalaka.

ACE respectfully acknowledges the Kaurna people are the traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains. 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. We acknowledge Elders past and present.

ACErlu tampinthi, ngadlu Kaurna yartangka inparrinthi. Kaurna miyurna yaitya yarta-mathanya Wama Tarntanyaku. Parnaku yailtya, parnaku tapa purruna, parnaku yarta ngadlurlu tampinthi. Yalaka Kaurna miyurna itu yailtya, tapa purruna, yarta kuma puru martinthi, puru warri-apinthi, puru tangka martulayinthi. Ngadlurlu tampinthi purkana pukinangku, yalaka.

ACE respectfully acknowledges the Kaurna people are the traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains. 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. We acknowledge Elders past and present.