This screening program extends the themes of WATER RITES through an array of international films centreing water as a subject, giving voice to water, its rhythms, needs, memories and desires. Here water is positioned as a potent non-human agent; as holder of culture, knowledge and memories, as matrix, healer and muse; and also as usurper, with deadly powers of breaking up, drowning, dissolving. The program is presented in two parts, with four films shown in each half of the exhibition timeframe.

Part 2 shares traditional knowledge, practices and stories in non-linear (VISIONS OF AN ISLAND) and decolonial forms (water sleep II Akaike river under Xizang Road); and through protecting and sharing knowledge (TJAETSIE/KNOW HOW and MENAPTWI).

(We need to get our heads above water and come in together.)

Films:

• Skye Hopinka, VISIONS OF AN ISLAND 2016, single channel video, sound, 15 minutes

• Hsin Su Yu, water sleep II Akaike river under Xizang Road 2019, single channel video, sound, 10 minutes 24 seconds

• Sissel M. Bergh, TJAETSIE/KNOW HOW 2017, single channel video, soundtrack by Maja Solveig Kjeldstrup Ratkje featuring deep sea recordings, 18 minutes

• Natasha Naveau, MENAPTWI (SMOKED) 2018, 16mm transferred to digital video, sound, 5 minutes 20 seconds

Followed by a 20 minute Q+A with WATER RITES Curator, Danni Zuvela and Tarnanthi Artistic Director, Nici Cumpston.