Closing dialogues: Closing dialogues : Who will be there to sing the rain song? History, Indigenous Land and Changing Weather Patterns

June Oscar (Australia) and Françoise Vergès (France) in dialogue with Dalisa Pigram (Australie) and Angela Conquet (France-Australia)

Bunuba cultural leader and long-term advisor to Marrugeku in the Central Kimberley, Dr June Oscar will discuss history, geology and climate futures for the Bunuba people who face extreme flooding events that have altered the landscape. June will outline the cultural hosting of Marrugeku’s experimental choreographic processes in a 300-million year old Devonian reef on Bunuba lands and the complexities of climate futures in colonial aftermaths.

Political theorist Françoise Vergès will close the FORUM program in dialogue with its coordinator, Angela Conquet, by bringing an European perspective on urgencies linked to climate disasters and decolonial processes and the role artists can play in activating a collective response-ability.

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