LUCRECCIA QUINTANILLA

Lucreccia QUINTANILLA
I can hear a ringtail possum 2020
field recording and sound montage (duration 26 minutes, 28 seconds)

Maribyrnong River flood 74

El Salvadorian-born, Melbourne/Naarm-based artist and DJ Lucreccia Quintanilla has produced a new audio work that traverses the Maribyrnong River. Titled I can hear a ringtail possum (2020), this audio montage draws upon research of the river’s historic floodings. It speaks of environmental and urban dialogues, and how waterways create audible trajectories or sound-languages, particularly celebrating the traditional Wurundjeri Woi-wurung name of the river – I can hear a ringtail possum.

This work looks at waterways as ever changing ever evolving natural forces. They swell, flood, create and destroy. Waterways have trajectories beyond the visual, histories and stories that manifest in many ways including sounds the indigenous name of what is known in its Anglicised form as the Maribyrnong is ‘Mirring-gnay-bir-nong’, which translates as 'I can hear a ringtail possum'.  I am interested in waterways and their sound language and how we can learn at their pace through what is audible to us and how our stories fit as we move alongside of them. 

 

Lucreccia Quintanilla

This work looks at waterways as ever changing ever evolving natural forces. They swell, flood, create and destroy. Waterways have trajectories beyond the visual, histories and stories that manifest in many ways including sounds the indigenous name of what is known in its Anglicised form as the Maribyrnong is ‘Mirring-gnay-bir-nong’, which translates as 'I can hear a ringtail possum'.  I am interested in waterways and their sound language and how we can learn at their pace through what is audible to us and how our stories fit as we move alongside of them. 

 

Lucreccia Quintanilla

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Images sourced from Flood Plain Conference