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Installation by Marrugeku 22 minutes. 3 channel.

Gudirr Gudirr (the guwayi bird) calls when the tide is turning — to miss the call is to drown. By turns hesitant, restless, resilient and angry, Gudirr Gudirr lights a path from a broken past through a fragile present and on towards an uncertain future. Expressing a language born of their Asian–Indigenous identities, Visual artist Vernon Ah Kee and movement artist Dalisa Pigram capture the warning call of the wader bird in an intimate gestural language of dance, portraiture and text compositions. Filmed on location in Dalisa’s Yawuru homelands in the north west of Australia, the installation re-imagines her original solo work first presented by Marrugeku in 2013.

Duration

0:22

Credits

Director: Vernon Ah Kee
Based on an original concept by Dalisa Pigram with Patrick Dodson, realised by Marrugeku
Performer and Co-choreographer: Dalisa Pigram
Producer: Bridget Ikin
Dramaturg and Associate Producer: Rachael Swain
Co-choreographer and director of original production: Koen Augustijnen
Editor: Darrin Baker
Cinematographer: Emma Paine
Additional Cinematography: Sam James
Composer: Sam Serruys
Singer and Songwriter: Stephen Pigram
Costume Designer: Stephen Curtis
Sound Design: Liam Egan
Lizard footage courtesy David Batty/ Rebel Films Co-produced by Felix Media and Marrugeku Vernon Ah Kee courtesy of Milani Gallery, Brisbane

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