Wik Cha'prah – Cha tru chath: Wik blood speaks to you

Abstract

My work to date explores and plays with bringing the essence of relational Arnya spirituality into new spaces and forms of conveyance, depiction and articulation. I do this by revisitation, re-call and rearticulation of ancient songline eldership Voice teaching. Recall and retrieval from stored memory files articulates the knowledge narrative. The amalgamation of the organic internal filing system, the collective of kinship knowledge offerings ongoing and the digital produces transmutative narratives. Lived experience as inherited bloodline descendent further contextualises and embeds the spirit essence of voice. The body in which I dwell in, with all its parts in function, brings into being a new song vocabulary of Arnya through multi-modal construction and conveyance. In this process, the collective of kinship in all its parts, organic and other, remain embedded in the emergence and continuity of voice and flow.