ABSTRACT

As geographers add their voices to the declaration of climate emergency, there is much to learn from First Nations contemporary art practitioners. Like other First Nations Peoples, we First Australians have a responsibility to care for and protect our Mother Earth to whom we belong. The maintenance of custodial responsibilities is something we enact through our daily activities. I speak as a Ngugi woman of Mulgumpin (Moreton Island) in the Quandamooka (Moreton Bay Area), and I acknowledge the Jinibara people on whose lands I am living today. From Jinibara high Country I can see my Island homeland across the bay. Our lands and waters give us our language. Through the daily practice of Ganngalanji, a Yugambeh-Bundjalung word, meaning simultaneously listening, calling out to, knowing and understanding, I continue our Ancient cultural traditions as I call out and listen to an intergenerational sense of knowing and understanding Country. My artworks arise from the lands and waters around me and seek to break through the destructive colonial overlay of the past 240 years. I am very pleased that my works speak to others, including geographers, whose endeavours are concerned with arts practices, memory, mapping and our connections to lands and waters.

摘要

随着地理学家在气候紧急状态宣言中加入他们的声音，原住民当代艺术从业者可以学到很多东西。与其他原住民一样，我们澳大利亚原住民有责任关心和保护我们所属的地球母亲。维护监护责任是我们通过日常活动制定的。我以 Quandamooka（摩顿湾地区）Mulgumpin（摩顿岛）的一名 Ngugi 妇女的身份发言，我感谢 Jinibara 人民，他们今天居住在他们的土地上。从 Jinibara High Country，我可以看到海湾对面我的岛屿家园。我们的土地和水域给了我们语言。通过Ganngalanji的日常练习，一个 Yugambeh-Bundjalung 词，意思是同时倾听、呼唤、了解和理解，我继续我们古老的文化传统，因为我呼唤和倾听代际间对国家的认识和理解。我的作品源于我周围的土地和水域，力求突破过去 240 年的破坏性殖民覆盖。我很高兴我的作品能与其他人交流，包括地理学家，他们的努力与艺术实践、记忆、绘图以及我们与土地和水域的联系有关。