Ten years after it premiered at Arts House in Melbourne, Gudirr Gudirr has toured to Paris for presentation as part of Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters exhibition at Musée du quai Branly.
The intimate solo dance and video work features our Artistic Co-Director Dalisa Pigram, calling a warning to community facing industrialisation on traditional lands, loss of language and major gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous wellbeing.
In an interview with Ollia Horton on Radio France Internationale, Dalisa said —
Also the country is at risk every single day with the different policies, mining and loss of language, loss of elders and all of that. In the last ten years, nothing has changed…
Read the rest of the interview with Dalisa here, Gudirr Gudirr is presented from 9 – 11 June at Musée du quai Branly.
Image Credit: Dalisa Pigram, Gudirr Gudirr, Marrugeku, 2013. Photograph Heidrun Löhr.