Research Seminar/Log 13 03 2024

OCEAN/UNI Summer 2024 / Session 4 / Aurel Performativities

Margarida Mendes*

introduces Daniel Browning and Seini Taumoepeau

• https://www.newmuseum.org/calendar/view/1309/mining-the-deep-sea-frontier-organized-by-inhabitants-with-margarida-mendes

Artist Daniel Browning / Storyteller, Journalist, Aurel Performing Artist, Australia

Finding country in sound. Country around you — Australia and sea, many countries in this country. Practice: Trying to bring the sense of country in the sound. Installation called Blak Box, as sound pavilion in the docks of Sidney vis-a-vis the shore of »goat island« (Barangaroo language of first nation people translated »eye«, the eye of the harbor)

https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/blak-box-explores-the-past-modern-and-future-sounds-of-barangaroo-precinct/rdo3mjfep

https://greenmagazine.com.au/presenting-blak-box-sydneys-architecturally-designed-sound-pavilion/

https://utp.org.au/event/blak-box-precarities

https://blakandbright.com.au/artist/daniel-browning/

Window into the world and how our ancestors / first nations people thought is through language, texture, Sound

Seini Taumoepeau, Orator and Songwoman

Connecting with global communities, Sēini is also known as: SistaNative, Napangardi & Cantora - from Kingdom of Tonga origins, an Australian veteran

https://www.knowledgeofwounds.com/seini-taumoepeau

https://performancespace.com.au/programs/artists/seini-sistanative-taumoepeau/

https://acas.iafor.org/pilar-kasat-seini-taumoepeau-join-indigenous-ways-of-knowing-panel/

https://www.pact.net.au/seini-taumoepeau