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Commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), WINHANGANHA was born from a desire to make sense of the archival inheritances that shape our present realities. Across a two-year period working closely with the NFSA collection Jazz sifted through and reflected on the institution’s extensive collections of works made by and about First Nations Australian people. Through film, television, audio and music recordings collected since the advent of these technologies, the film is a poem in five acts that attempts to acknowledge the horrors, joys and beauties held within the archive. The film questions power and position, story teller and the stories told. The film includes original poetry written and performed by Jazz and an original score by Filipino- Aboriginal rapper and composer DOBBY (Rhyan Clapham). WINHANGANHA is centred upon the belief that it is our own bodies that are the truest archive of our experience, and that First Nations bodies tell a powerful story of sovereignty and resistance. And while First Nations bodies have been documented, mythologised, degraded, and catalogued and stored within the colonial gaze of archive, these bodies, these people, have danced and sung and marched and are utterly whole, beyond what can be held in these collections. The film asks how we will create new futures through that which we inherit.
This film is presented by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia and this event is part of UTS School of Architecture’s Solidarity public program.
Format: 1 hour film screening, followed by 1/2-hour conversation with artist
Jazz Money (she/they) is a poet and artist of Wiradjuri heritage producing works that encompass installation, digital, performance, film and print. Working across different mediums, Jazz’s practice is centred around questions of narrative and legacy: place memory, First Nations memory, colonial memory and the stories that we tell to construct national and personal identity. Their first poetry collection, the bestselling how to make a basket (UQP, 2021) was the 2020 winner of the David Unaipon Award. In 2023 she is a resident artist at the Clothing Store at Carriageworks in Sydney. As a cross-disciplinary artist, Jazz’s work has been presented in public settings and leading institutions including HeK Basel, Switzerland; The Shed, New York; Pivô, São Paulo; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; ACMI, Melbourne; Powerhouse, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney; Carriageworks, Sydney; Fremantle Biennale; and others. Their writing has been widely published nationally and internationally, and performed on stages around the world, including TEDx Sydney; the Edinburgh International Book Festival; the Sydney Opera House; Literature Live! Mumbai; Auckland Writers Festival; Performance Space New York; PEN International; and a wide range of arts and literary festivals in every Australian state and territory.
