Wednesday 7pm
ONLINE EVENT
Gail Harradine and Belinda Eckermann will join HRAG Curator, Alison Eggleton and MGA Senior Curator, Pippa Milne to discuss the work shown at two institutions during PHOTO 2022 and the ways that these bodies of work interconnect and differ from each other. Harradine and Eckermann : Mali marrng Mallee sky is a collaborative project at HRAG, and Harradine’s solo work Old ways, new ways is featured within the exhibition at MGA.
Harradine and Eckermann’s first time collaboration, Mali marrng Mallee Sky, merges digital photography, entomological research, electron microscopic imaging and First Nations cultural practices, to explore a shared knowledge and connection to the landscape around Lake Albacutya –Ngalukgutya in Victoria Mallee region. Their alliance manifests in new cultural ways of thinking through practice, in a desire to experiment and entangle these spheres- as they seek a greater understanding of the human experience of connection to Country.
Photography can be a container, a mouthpiece, a medium of record: a tool for considering and enlivening the ways of the past through the eyes of the present. In Old ways, new ways, works from three collections sit together to consider the ways that First Nations photography makes links between times gone by and the present, placing traditions within contemporary practice, speaking (sometimes shouting, at times singing, sometimes performing) across generations and through passages of time.
