Ngurragabu is a provocation of relocation and repair, inspired by the survival of those who have already faced end times. Locating speculative questions of humanities survival within the unsung cultural imaginary of northern Australia’s connection to South East Asia, Ngurragabu asks: what might emerge after the darkest night looming on all our horizons.
As the latest iteration of choreographer Dalisa Pigram and director Rachael’ Swain’s intercultural and multidisciplinary collaborations – their unique choreo-political truth telling reaches new futurist dimensions. Created in collaboration with an extraordinary cast, hailing from diverse Indigenous and settler-diasporic communities in Australia, South East Asia and Melanesia, Marrugeku interrogates the poly-crisis of climate, conflict and machine learning.
Visual artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah’s magic realist installation situates Ngurragabu in the deep time and tides of archipelagos connecting north Western Australia and east Indonesia. Masterfully evoking the urgent need for reorientation, audiences will be immersed in a spectacular petrified mangrove system —as an environment that has changed beyond humanities current capacities. The ecological world weaving of Ngurragabu has been developed in dialogue with Yawuru and Bardi custodians and researched in collaboration with Landscape Futurists from REALM studios with techno-futurist music by Corin Ileto.
Now, at this defining time in history, we rewild our imaginations to remember the possibilities of transformation and repair at the precipice of survival.
Ngurragabu is a provocation of relocation and repair, inspired by the survival of those who have already faced end times. Locating speculative questions of humanities survival within the unsung cultural imaginary of northern Australia’s connection to South East Asia, Ngurragabu asks: what might emerge after the darkest night looming on all our horizons.
As the latest iteration of choreographer Dalisa Pigram and director Rachael’ Swain’s intercultural and multidisciplinary collaborations – their unique choreo-political truth telling reaches new futurist dimensions. Created in collaboration with an extraordinary cast, hailing from diverse Indigenous and settler-diasporic communities in Australia, South East Asia and Melanesia, Marrugeku interrogates the poly-crisis of climate, conflict and machine learning.
Visual artist Abdul-Rahman Abdullah’s magic realist installation situates Ngurragabu in the deep time and tides of archipelagos connecting north Western Australia and east Indonesia. Masterfully evoking the urgent need for reorientation, audiences will be immersed in a spectacular petrified mangrove system —as an environment that has changed beyond humanities current capacities. The ecological world weaving of Ngurragabu has been developed in dialogue with Yawuru and Bardi custodians and researched in collaboration with Landscape Futurists from REALM studios with techno-futurist music by Corin Ileto.
Now, at this defining time in history, we rewild our imaginations to remember the possibilities of transformation and repair at the precipice of survival.
