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Gamarragu - Towards Indigenous Intermediary Practices
Gamarragu (Gamarada) – Towards Dharug Intermediary Practices: A Legacy of Intercultural Relational Archives (Country, Kinship, Memory and Institutional Records) aims to investigate lesser-known Indigenous intermediary practices. For example, a heritage of intercultural communications that facilitated understanding between Dharug and Irish cultural groups. My work merges visual art and critical Indigenous theory to reimagine archives as a connection to land, memory, material cultures and artefact collections alongside written and graphic records. I am engaging my experiential research model to research Irish and UK archives for signs of relationality between my Dharug and Irish Ancestries. I am particularly interested in a legacy of earth based connectedness, cultural knowledges, diaspora, hidden stories and forced migration. This work is significant as it supports important insights into Indigenous relationality and truth-telling, preserves Dharug cultural values and a continuity of innovative intermediary practices...
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