Video productions

An-guchechiya (Fish trap)

Funded by Australia Council for the Arts. Produced by Maningrida Arts & Culture with assistance from Milingimbi Arts & Culture

Harvesting bark with Kamarrang Paul Nabulumo and Kamarrang Ken Na-Djungkidj

Funded by Australia Council for the Arts. Produced by Maningrida Arts & Culture

Gamanyjan Doreen Jinggarrabarra

Funded by Australia Council for the Arts. Produced by Maningrida Arts & Culture

Kunmadj (Dilly Bag) Kamarrang Jack Nawilil

Funded by Australia Council for the Arts. Produced by Maningrida Arts & Culture

Gun-menama (Pandanus): Gamanyjan Doreen Jinggarrabarra and Gochan Freda Wayartja

Funded by Australia Council for the Arts. Produced by Maningrida Arts & Culture

Gojok Marcus Pascoe: Warraburnburn

Funded by Australia Council for the Arts. Produced by Maningrida Arts & Culture

Bongolinjbongolinj 

A famed song series composed by Bangardi Djoli Laiwanga OAM from Wugularr, Norther Territory. Leading Australian contemporary artists Kamarrang Bob Burruwal and Kodjdjan Lena Yarinkura staged a performance at their outstation, Ankabadbirri recreating an event where Laiwanga was buried alive by Wyarra (devil spirits). He was surround by socery spikes under a shelter while the Wyarra performed song and dance. While he was buried he heard the mako (didjeridu) and felt the vibration of the dancers feet hitting the ground. Laiwanga managed to escape and leap out of where he had been buried alive and the Wyarra asked him which of the performances he enjoyed the most.

These songs became a series of Kunborrk style songs performed for Bongolinjbongolinj. Bob and Lena created a sculptural installation of Djoli and the place he was buried while song people, makp players and more than 50 dancers performed songs from Bongolinjbongolinj: Rock Kangaroo, Cloud, Pigeon, Goanna, Catfish and White Cockatoo.

Dancers wore man-djimborr (Yirridjdja yam) body design, bokngarru (dancing belts) made by Yarinkura, Balang Sammy Davis played mako, Kamarrang Jacky Nawilil sang with Kamarrang Marshall Campion. Dancers were led by Yarinkura and Tim Kalakala. Artists and performArtists and performances afterwards said that they felt so happy and inspired by Bongolinjbongolinj and would remember the day for the rest of their lives. Thanks to Babbarra Designs for printed T-shirt’s and skirts, Bawinaaga Rangers for camp oven cooking, the art centre crew for weeks of hard work but mostly the generosity and vision of Bob and Lena.

Funded through the Regional Arts Fund. Photographed and filmed by Pendulum, Darwin.