2022 Intersections Symposium
This online symposium opened the 1st International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) and the 21st National Recording Project for Indigenous Music and Dance in Australia (NRPIPA) Symposium on Indigenous Music and Dance.
Video presentations from the 2022 Intersections Symposium
Panel Discussion: The National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia at 20 Years
The National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia (NRPIPA) helps Indigenous people in Australia to record, document, and securely archive their music and dance traditions. Founded in Arnhem Land in 2002, the NRPIPA is a Study Group of the Musicological Society of Australia and is open to community stakeholders, performers, scholars, archivists, and other professionals with interests in maintaining and revitalising Indigenous music and dance. This panel marks the NRPIPA’s 20th anniversary with a discussion of its past, present, and future.
Speakers: Marcia Langton, Allan Marett, Payi Linda Ford, Sally Treloyn, Brian Gumbula, Wanta Pawu
Book Launch: Proceedings of the 2020 International Council for Traditional Music Symposium on Indigenous Music and Dance
Join us for the launch of the published proceedings from the symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music Study Group on Indigenous Music and Dance. The symposium was hosted and convened by Yuh-Fen Tseng at National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan in 2020. This is a fully bilingual book published in both Chinese and English.
Speakers: Yuh-Fen Tseng, Marcia Langton, Svanibor Pettan
Yoyi (Dance): Communicating Tiwi Knowledge around Change, Continuity, and Tradition in a Contemporary Art Context
This presentation highlights the intimate relationship between Tiwi country, painting, and dance. YOYI was an exhibition and research program based at the Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery on the University of Melbourne’s Southbank Campus in 2022. YOYI combined a four-channel video installation featuring traditional adornments, body painting, Jilamara fabrics, screen prints, everyday clothing, and performers dancing on Country with 30 bark paintings by Tiwi artists. Set to the rhythms of Tiwi yoyi (ceremonial dance), this work brought dance, language, and vision of Country into the gallery.
Speakers: David Sequeira, Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association
Performing Puturlu Yawulyu: A Profile of One Singer’s Assertions of Place-based Identity across Space and Time
The late Coral Napangardi Gallagher (d. 2019) was an esteemed Elder and repository for many thousands of yawulyu songs relating to Warlpiri lands across the Tanami desert. She was the kind of person who was “kurdungurlu [ceremonial manager] for everyone" in that she would enthusiastically support the singing of yawulyu belonging to anyone and, in doing so, would activate the feel-good power of Country, stories, and the connectedness of kin. This presentation will illustrate how Napangardi managed the spaces for song performance to maintain important knowledge of places and the environment, to feature the associated jukurrpa stories, and to emphasise the kin connections which were reactivated in each performance.
Speakers: Georgia Curran, Enid Nangala Gallagher, Ormay Nangala Gallagher, Yvonne Nangala Gallagher
What Do My Country’s Songs Sound Like? A Method to Revitalising Aboriginal Songs in New South Wales
We often hear peoples say, “I want to know how to sing my Old People’s songs. I want to know what to teach my children”. Despite the disruption of colonisation, there is a revitalisation of traditional songs and language happening in New South Wales as a result of research into sound file archives, oral history and, most significantly, our Country itself. Through our ties to Ngiyampaa, Wiradjuri, Gamilaraay, Gumbaynggirr, and Dhanggati Country, we present a method of reawakening, revitalising, and continuing our songs, and explore how different stylistic features of songs represent the diversity of Country and Kin to answer the question “What do my Country’s songs sound like?”
Speakers: Jesse Hodgetts, Raymond Kelly