Petlamp, Arnhem Land
Participatory design as a reconciliatory process.
Through designing and working together and deeply experiencing the practice of making on Country new stories can be created together - stories that connect difficult pasts into a shared future.
And Projects was engaged by NGV to set up and develop the collaboration between Petlamp, Bula Bula artists and facilitate codesign, making and deliver the large scale installation for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial in 2017.
The Bula Bula artists of Ramingining in Arnhem Land shared their unique techniques and processes of weaving during a collaboration with PET Lamp.
Over more than a month of exploratory practice and codesign, PET Lamp and local weavers integrated their approaches, showcasing local styles, linking individual dreaming stories with global issues of plastic waste, and connecting people through the process of making.
The work was acknowledged as a significant contribution to indigenous contemporary practice and has also been shown as a centrepiece at Rosanna Orlandi for Milan Design Week in 2018.
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Photography: Tobias Titz
