An exhibition of the moving image, including stop-motion, 3D and other animation techniques, Big Eye showcases Aboriginal animations from Australia and Canada in a unique cross-tribal exchange of ideas and world views.
Aboriginal Australian screen artists use digital storytelling techniques to bring cultural knowledge and contemporary exploration of country to the fore, with an original and distinctive voice.
Big Eye builds on its 2008 debut screening at 24HR Art (Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin) featuring prominent Aboriginal Australian artists to now include works by Aboriginal Canadian Animators and Artists.
Star Aboriginal Canadian artist Skawennati Tricia Fragnito's new media practice uniquely centres on creating projects specifically for the internet, which she believes is 'an extraordinary art delivery system'. Skawennati's work responds to cultural misconceptions and generalisations about gender and race, like Imagining Indians in the 25th Century.
“First World” countries Australia and Canada are two of very few countries in the world who recognise their first people as Aboriginal. Philosophically, this exhibition explores a shared heritage by Aboriginal Canadians <http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/acp/site.nsf/en/index.html> and
Aboriginal Australians
<http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/indigenous> through the intersection of Aboriginal Aesthetics and Culture, with the endurance of a similar colonisation as a background.
Featuring fom Canada: Dark Thunder Productions, Raven Tales, Skawennati Tricia Fragnito & AbTech, Rabbit and Bear Paws and The Healthy Aboriginal Network; and from Australia: Frank Mcleod & Aboriginal Nations, Aroha Groves, Christine Peacock & Rebekah Pitt & John Graham, the Gunbalanya Community & Gozer Media, and artist/curator Jenny Fraser.
Exhibition Design by Lubi Thomas.
Opening Celebration was Monday 28th April, until May 15th 2009 at 'the block' gallery, then screening outdoors at Parer Place until 31st May.
* also touring to Pinnacles Gallery Townsville from June 20
* and MoFO Project Gallery, Cairns - as part of the onedge festival opening at MoFO Gallery July 3 with performances by: Evolution Control Committee (USA), Zane Saunders, Tape Deck Kid & guests, until July 18th....
and a Public Screening on the Esplanade in Cairns on Friday July 17th at 6pm, as part of LAPS: Live Art in Public Spaces
* then back to Brisbane for the Colourise Festival, NAIDOC at Musgrave Park July 10, screening 10am -> 4pm
and also a weeks screening at the Queensland Musuem, South Brisbane, in July 2009
Links:
download the room brochure
courier mail news story
Raven Tales: http://www.raventales.ca
Wapos Bay http://www3.nfb.ca/webextension/wapos-bay
Rabbit & Bear Paws: http://www.rabbitandbearpaws.com
Aboriginal Nations http://www.thedreamingstories.com.au & http://www.ablnat.com.au
Dreamtime Animations http://www.dreamtimeanimations.com
Skawennati: http://www.skawennati.com
AbTech: http://www.abtec.org
The Healthy Aboriginal Network http://www.thehealthyaboriginal.net
other[wize] http://www.geocities.com/dot_ayu
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