Working across themes of climate justice, abolition, storytelling, anti-oppression practice, and cultural theory, participants include Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Alexis Wright, Anjali Sharma, Aseel Tayah, Debbie Kilroy, Leah Manaema Avene and Nevo Zisin.
Gebhardt experiments with the edges of analogue photography to connect celestial time scales with liberatory praxis, where the twin spheres of the Moon and the human eye are linked as witness and conscience. Reflected in the participants’ eyes are tracings of the Moon itself created through subtle movement of the human body in dialogue with Earth's rotation.
As Earth’s closest celestial companion, the Moon offers an enduring lesson in renewal through its eternal cycling, where the death of the old Moon brings forth the birth of the new. The moonlit figures in Mångata are harbingers of renewal, reflecting the interconnected labour of liberatory praxis that signals the conscious undoing of the times we live in.
We invite you to listen to the participants as they generously share their insights in recorded interviews with the artist. These recordings can be accessed beyond the installation via this website or the associated podcast titled Mångata.
Project producer Priya Namana
Installation sound composition Lawrence English
Stills colourist and printing Peter Hatzipavlis
Motion Tobi Edwards
Curated by Anouska Phizacklea. Made with the generous support of Creative Australia, Country Arts SA, and Arts SA.
Alexis Wright’s recording kindly supplied by Emergence Magazine.
With special thanks to Sól Swida, Asia Swida, Anouska Phizacklea, Final Grade, Hoda Afshar, Shea Kirk, Aera Bradley, Lillian Cooke, Katie Milwright, Arten Framing, Eugenia Lim, Eugene Howard, Penelope Gebhardt and MAPh.
We acknowledge the people, lands, waters and skies of Wurundjeri, Quandamooka, Ngunnawal, Wadawurrung, Turrbal and Jagera Country where this project has been created. We recognise with deep respect the creative, intellectual, philosophical and spiritual practices of Aboriginal People that have been connected to this land since time immemorial.
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