The Ocean Remembers

The Ocean Remembers features video by Jody Haines and photographs by Ali Baker.

“(Re)membering to Listen, Jody Haines, palawa, (2023) is a single channel projection work, extracted from a larger seven channel work called Against the Wind, featuring a surround soundscape. The work was filmed on Tommeginne Country, Lutruwita (Tasmania), where I created a visual interpretation of my Standpoint and a love letter to Country. This work follows the ‘slipstreams of songlines’, remembering and relearning, deep listening and breathing.” Jody Haines

Sovereign Fleet, (2013), is a series of photo portraits of women by Ali Gumillya Baker. Using the symbolism of 18th and 19th century transport ships her works refer to colonial archives, memory and inter-generational transmission of knowledge. Her photographs suggest a contempo-rary retort to the colonial representations of Aboriginal women. For Gumillya Baker, it is through art and performance, and research into the colonial archive that sovereignty is continually demonstrated and asserted.