Institute of Modern Art

This panel discussion was recorded following a screening of the Khaled Hourani's film Picasso in Palestine (2012). Hear Miriam Deprez (photojournalist and PhD candidate, Griffith University), Dr Jamal Nabulsi (diaspora Palestinian writer and researcher), and Remah Naji (Member, Justice for Palestine, Magan-djin) in conversation, facilitated by Dr Samid Suliman (Senior Lecturer, Migration and Security at Griffith University). This discussion contextualises the film against the decades-long history of the occupation of Palestine, reflects on the im/mobilities that it documents, and instigates an important discussion of the role and duty of the arts to act (transnationally and transversally) against dispossession, occupation, state violence, and genocide.

Curated and hosted by author Ellen van Neerven (Mununjali), Poetic Intentions welcomed several First Nations poets and writers to share their work on the expansive stage in Daniel Boyd's exhibition Rainbow Serpent (Version). Listen back to an evening of spoken works from Darby Jones, Cheryl Leavy, Aurora Liddle-Christie, Yasmin Smith, Vika Mana, and Joella Warkill.

Listen to author Melanie Saward (Bigambul, Wakka Wakka) present a new story written in response to Daniel Boyd's exhibition Rainbow Serpent (Version). Saward's debut novel, Burn, was published to critical acclaim in 2023, and her second novel, Love Unleashed, will be published by Penguin Random House in 2024. Her writing has been published in Griffith Review, Meanjin, and Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now alongside leading Aboriginal writers, and shortlisted for numerous awards.

Audio description of Justine Youssef's multi-sensory installation 'Somewhat Eternal' (2023).

Publishing for over a decade, VAULT is Australia’s leading glossy art quarterly. The magazine profiles the work of prominent artists from Australasia and beyond, with forays into areas such as fashion, architecture, and literature. Hear VAULT Editor-in-Chief Alison Kubler in conversation with IMA Director Robert Leonard on the occasion of the launch of VAULT no. 44: The Future Issue. Looking to artists at the vanguard for a sense of the future of art and society, this issue profiles the work of Serwah Attafuah, Michael Candy, Boris Eldagsen, Jenny Holzer, Patricia Piccinini, Agnieszka Pilat, Jordan Wolfson, and more.

Audio description of Daniel Boyd's sculpture ‘Untitled (DR)’ (2023).

Audio description of Daniel Boyd's painting ‘Untitled (ILYM)’ (2022).

Audio description of Daniel Boyd's painting 'Untitled (FLICSAIBE)' (2023).

Audio description of Daniel Boyd's mirrored floor installation 'Untitled' (2023).

Audio descriptions of selected works in Daniel Boyd's painting 'Untitled (NAIFAG)' (2023).

Audio description of Daniel Boyd's painting 'Untitled (SPSIDKAATYDC)' (2023).

This audio tour developed by Jan Pyke will describe a walk through of the three gallery spaces, stopping to describe key works in each room. This is followed by a short excerpt of text from the exhibition broadsheet, written by Raphaela Rosella, to aid interpretation. In Australia and across the globe demands are growing for a society in which prisons and policing are no longer the default solution to address social, economic, and political issues in our communities. Despite this, systems of surveillance, classification, and control extend far beyond prison walls, parole boards, and courtrooms. They are embedded in archives, bureaucratic procedures, and the subsequent documents that record an individual’s lived experience. Unveiling the ineptitude of ‘official records’, You’ll Know It When You Feel It is a socially engaged art project that seeks to resist bureaucratic representations of women whose lives intersect with the prison-industrial complex. Co-created by Brisbane based artist Raphaela Rosella, this intimate work has emerged over fifteen years alongside several women in her life. From six-minute phone calls to handwritten letters that circulate between Rosella, her friends, family members, and loved ones, the multi-authored exhibition examines the value of their co-created archive as a site of resistance.

Casino Wake Up Time member, Kylie Caldwell, shares three poems which she has written about native plants and the diverse waterways which sustain them on Bundjalung country in the Northern Rivers. Nanna You Remember! is a poem about wetlands, and the animals and plants within these wetlands. It’s a place where the weaving fibre, buckie rush, is collected. Kylie shares that wetlands are one of the most valuable ecosystems which act as reservoirs to collect water during big rains, reducing the effects of flooding. They protect coastal areas from storm surges by securing fragile soil and sand, and purify water by acting as a filter. Kylie dedicates this poem to her ancestors, who held a wealth of knowledge about these ecosystems. Picking Again is a poem about Casino Wake Up Time collecting rushes and other plants for weaving. A Survivor is a poem about lomandra, a plant that plays a significant role in supporting the banks of rivers and creeks and keeping these waters healthy and strong.

In this mediation, Hanna invites you to be transported to the mouth of the River Ythan in Aberdeenshire Scotland. A large colony of grey and common seals call out from the estuary banks. The sound of their calls are carried in the wind. Hanna shares two traditional seal-calling songs, and teaches an extract from one of these which she works with in her seal calling improvisations. This traditional Scottish Gaelic seal-calling song comes from the collection of Marjory Kennedy Fraser, an early twentieth century folklorist. It is a simple song created entirely from wordless sounds that imitate the grey seal's singing.

In this audio mediation, Marjetica talks about the referendum for water rights in Slovenia in 2021 and her collaboration with Uncle Ray Woods to make 2 visual essays titled The Rights of a River and The Life of the Lachlan River. The drawings tell of the struggles of two rivers in different parts of the world: the Soča River in Slovenia and the Lachlan River in Australia, in New South Wales. She invites the listener to consider rivers as a subject with whom we can foster a relationship with, rather than an object.

Audio Descriptions and Interpretive Texts for select works in Maluw Adhil Urngu Padanu Mamuy Moesik (Legends from the deep sitting peacefully on the waters) Selected works from the 23rd Biennale of Sydney: rivus

Audio Descriptions and Interpretive Texts for select works in Maluw Adhil Urngu Padanu Mamuy Moesik (Legends from the deep sitting peacefully on the waters) Selected works from the 23rd Biennale of Sydney: rivus

Audio Descriptions and Interpretive Texts for select works in Maluw Adhil Urngu Padanu Mamuy Moesik (Legends from the deep sitting peacefully on the waters) Selected works from the 23rd Biennale of Sydney: rivus

Audio Descriptions and Interpretive Texts for select works in Maluw Adhil Urngu Padanu Mamuy Moesik (Legends from the deep sitting peacefully on the waters) Selected works from the 23rd Biennale of Sydney: rivus

Audio Descriptions and Interpretive Texts for select works in Maluw Adhil Urngu Padanu Mamuy Moesik (Legends from the deep sitting peacefully on the waters) Selected works from the 23rd Biennale of Sydney: rivus