deadstream_TV

deadstream_TV is a selection of film and sound works centring the issues facing fresh and saltwater country and culture.

‘From the speculative marketplace in water futures to rorting of water allocations, excessive irrigation IS colonial violence. In streaming film and sound works made in reflection of a 2800km road trip I took with my children crossing at least 10 of the 27 Aboriginal nations that make up what is known in contemporary western terms as the Murray Darling Basin, an ancient and imperilled river systems, I am trying to channel this pain; a kind of spiritual blood-letting, through which thoughts, concepts, conversations and First Nations perspectives – may flow.’

TUNE IN
SAT 23 MAY
5PM (AEST)
deadstream_TV

Episode 1: WARIBUL WAYIRA ( hungry water-ways)

Episode 2: SALTWATER REFLECTIONS – Water Over Rippled Sand Gheebelum Uncle Bob Anderson Ngugi Mulgumpin

Episode 3: UNDER-EXPOSED/OVER-EXTRACTED Uncle Bruce Shillingsworth

Episode 5: BLOODLETTING

Episode 6: UPSTREAM Brendan Adams Wilcannia community member

Episode 7: SMOKE CLOAK

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FRI 29 MAY
5.30PM (AEST)
deadstream_TV presents
Livestream Special

Episode 4: DOWNSTREAM Aunty Cheryl Moggs Bigambul

Episode 8: LIVESTREAM: AMPLIFICATION AFFIRMATION LOCATION, SPIRIT, SONG, a call for healing through sound

SEE MORE > deadstream_DABILBUNG (brokenwater) presents deadstream_tv

Libby Harward is a descendant of the Ngugi people of Mulgumpin (Moreton Island) in the Quandamooka (Moreton Bay Area of Queensland). Known for her early work as an urban graffiti artist under the pseudonym of ‘MzMurricod‘, and her performance-based community activism, Harward’s recent series, ALREADY OCCUPIED, engages a continual process of re-calling –re-hearing –re-mapping –re-contextualising-de-colonising and reinstating on country that which colonisation has denied Australia’s First Peoples.This political practice engages Traditional Custodians in the evolution of ephemeral installations on mainland country which has become highly urbanised and calls for an artistic response that seeks to uncover and reinstate the cultural significance of place, which always was, and remains to be there. Her current place-based sound and video work engages directly with politically-charged ideas of national and international significance.