Seeding Treaty
"...Disruption of the current cycles and implementation of First Nations knowledge.
Seeding Treaty -
Barkindji Story -
Creation, Growing, Learning, Teaching,Sharing stories, Transference of knowledge.
The Rainbow Serpents follow the Peewee to find a new home. As they follow the bird they wriggle around, forming big bends, and deepen the channel, forming the Darling River and letting the water flow in.
Barkindji Story -
Creation, Growing, Learning, Teaching,
Sharing stories, Transference of knowledge.
Symbolic narratives connecting the environment, the planet, our health - mental and physical.
Fast forward to the Now. Naked, lifeless tracks that represent to me, greed, power and ignorance and disregard for Indigenous knowledge.
The Western systems in place exclude and categorise nature. And place a hierarchy on all living things,and seem to be failing to acknowledge that without one we cannot have the other.
More connection, conversation, and collaboration is needed to be able to have a valid voice to put forward."
Maddison Gibbs 2019
Maddison Gibbs is a Barkindji woman whose story features in the 2019 Seeding Treaties animations that mark the Year of Indigenous Languages and the 50th anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty.
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2022 We loved each other Getting my mother's sewing machine |
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2021 Amelia Hair-Heart The adventurous guinea-pig |
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2020 Nothingness Antarctic ice |
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2019 Seeding Treaty Indigenous and Western art and science meet |
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2019 Antarctic Heritage Krill mating |
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2019 Beauty that Was Past and present life and death |
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2017 Southern Ocean Wrack The sea in my blood |
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2016 Growing and Sharing Knowledge Animating conversation |
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2013 Art from Climate Science Data for action |
