2017

Digital Anxiety – Warwuyun (worry)

In collaboration with anthropologist Jennifer Deger the Research Leader in Creativity and Innovation at the Cairns Institute - James Cook University, HAWRAF created the digital interactive installation Warwuyun. Warwuyun (worry) is a digital artwork composed of 50 individual photo-collages made on mobile phones by members of an extended Yolngu family. The images that provide the basis for Warwuyun were made between 2009 and 2017 specifically for circulation amongst Yolngu kin networks. Individually striking, they feature cut-and-paste families assembled from family snaps, ethnographic collections, and Google image searches, arranged together onto backgrounds like sunsets or coconut-fringed beaches. Created on mobile phones with basic apps, these images attest to a distinctive Yolngu knack for embellishing the relational power of photography. Each image emphasizes a specific constellation of a relationship between clans and country.

Group Therapy: Mental Distress in a Digital Age
UNSW Galleries, Paddington, Australia – 2017

Installation

Art Camp, Jennifer Deger, Miyarrka Media