Pintupi Dialogues: Reconstructing Memories of Art, Land and Community Through the Visual Record

Pintupi Dialogues is built around a unique research resource ideally suited to the cultural specificities of the Pintupi historical consciousness. We will use these visual records to reconstruct a multi-vocal story of how the Pintupi fashioned their own modernity, with a particular emphasis on the great transition in their lives that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. We will adopt a dialogic approach, using the film:- as the basis for the principal dialogue at the heart of our research: a conversation between Pintupi community members and Professor Fred Myers, who was carrying out his doctoral work at Yayayi when Dunlop was filming, and who appears in it. - as the starting point for interviews of Dunlop and other outsiders who knew and worked with the Pintupi at that time.