VISUAL ARTS AUSTRALIA
“A milestone virtual reality
production, in fact—the first
in history to tell an Indigenous
Australian story.” ~ THE GUARDIAN
COLLISIONS
LYNETTE WALLWORTH
Director LYNETTE WALLWORTH // Featuring NYARRI MORGAN & CURTIS TAYLOR
Narration LYNETTE WALLWORTH & CURTIS TAYLOR // Producer NICOLE NEWNHAM
At the invitation of Morgan and the Martu
tribe, artist Lynette Wallworth has sculpted
Presented with
an immersive virtual reality experience that
places you at the story’s epicentre. From the
songs of the oldest surviving culture on the
planet to drones soaring above the red desert,
from projectors powered by car batteries to
bombs that poison the land, this is a world that
finds itself—again—teetering on a precipice of
technological change that questions how we
will steward it into the future.
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Nyarri Morgan’s first contact with Western
culture came when he witnessed an atomic
explosion in the South Australian desert. Half
a century later, another technology allows him
the chance to show you a firsthand account
of the moment when the most destructive
application of science and technology ever
invented interrupted the Martu generation’s
long stewardship of land.
ACMI
THU 06 OCTOBER 2016
—SUN 15 JANUARY 2017
MON — SUN 10AM — 5PM