Podcast Episode 14: Nathan Sentance talks about cultural collections, looking for authentic sources and being critical
Description
Nathan ‘Mudyi’ Sentance works on First Nations programming at the Australian Museum in Sydney and writes at Archival Decolonist. We talked to Nathan about why we must be critical when visiting cultural institutions, putting complexity into collections and why cultural institutions are not neutral.
In this episode we discuss:
- Gadi Exhibition at the Australian Museum
- Weave: Festival of Aboriginal and Pacific Cultures
- The Red Chief
- My ancestors are in our memory institutions, but their voices are missing
- Your neutral is not our neutral
- Garrigarang: Sea Country
- Indigenous X
- AIATSIS Interactive Map of Indigenous Australia
- Four Thousand Fish by Emily McDaniel
Contact Nathan on Twitter @SaywhatNathan.
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Sally & Amy
Music by Richard Frohlich and sound by Inspector J
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