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murnong (digging for yam daisy)

by amby downs

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"Murnong" is an ongoing audio-visual project that started in 2021 when I received a gift of some yam daisy seeds. A plant of significance to my family and many others from the eastern side of this continent, it was a staple food crop for Aboriginal people before European invasion. For me, this plant represents sacredness and survival after colonial violence, as well as an ongoing connection to the women in my family and the lives and diets of our ancestors.

This iteration of the project, a video work created for the Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2023, has with it an accompanying soundtrack (this track) that speaks to the presence of the past in our now and our future, the connection of all life and the effects of colonisation, as with the video.

What was thought to be lost, what has changed and restructured and yet remains connected - it is all there. This work seeks to remind audiences that we cannot erase uncomfortable histories, and that we cannot build good futures without stable foundations of knowledge about the human relationship to the non-human world; never creating that distinction between human and nature – instead: continuing to recognise ourselves as part of everything and everything being part of us - is how the ancestors lived in balance for many, many thousands of years. Adapting to change, this condition continues.

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released June 19, 2023
vocal sample: Uncle Robbie Thorpe
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made on unceded wurundjeri woi wurrung country
"murnong" is a woi wurrung word.

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