EDWINA GREEN
A new installation titled smelter slag, mill tailings, ancestral resuscitation from the Indian ocean (2020) by Trawlwoolway artist Edwina Green comprises of video, bull kelp bags and ghost gum branches. This work celebrates traditional methods, harvesting and making of bull kelp bags, yet warns of the effects of climate crisis on Country. The video component of this installation, kelp, chemical waste, both edible (2018-19), compiles moving images of a poisoned river located on Country, along with layered audio that cascades potent phrases over and over again, like an ever-flowing dialogic river of truth. The artist sees this work as critique towards continued colonial dismissal of Indigenous sacred sites.
The cross installation of hand made bull kelp bags, documentation of this, and the Mt Lyell acid drainage remediation speaks to an ancestral and postcolonial connection between traditional bull kelp water carriers, destruction of waterways, and cultural resurrection. Narratives surrounding the new wave of a climate crisis neglect that this is the revisiting of first contact and the stories telling this experience that were spoken, lost and stolen. Waterways conceive our presence, and continuation.
Edwina Green
Edwina GREEN
Mama never taught me 2020
bull kelp, natural fibres
kelp, chemical waste,
both edible 2018-19
video (duration 3 minutes, 9 seconds)
Installation documentation courtesy of BLINDSIDE gallery (top)
and SEVENTH gallery (bottom).
Edwina GREEN
Mama never taught me 2020
bull kelp, natural fibres
kelp, chemical waste,
both edible 2018-19
video (duration 3 minutes, 9 seconds)