Cultural Conduits: Connecting local and international First Nations Knowledges and art practices, through transformative encounters on Yuin, Wolgalu, Ngambri, Ngunnawal Countries

This panel will be structured as a dialogue
among the panellists, exploring the potential and
conditions for art making and teaching projects, to
facilitate encounters on and with Country. The panel
will discuss transformative experiences of truth telling
and knowledge sharing within social art projects on
and with Yuin, Wolgalu, Ngambri, Ngunnawal and
Western Aranda countries and peoples they have
engaged with. They will share specific projects,
practices and protocols which have been integral to
their process and impact, including the capacity to
advance First Nations knowledge sharing at local,
national and international levels.

The panel will consider the implications of working
within academic institutions and cultural agencies
engaging in contemporary art contexts with regard
to authorship, funding, and institutional politics. They
will share a recent collaborative research project
advancing First Nations knowledges, with Associate
Professor Clarence Cruz, a Tewa from Ohkay Owingeh,
(New Mexico, USA).

The panellists have differing and complementary
knowledges, including knowledge of Country,
Indigenous policy and health, land management
practices and cultural education, contemporary
and socially engaged art practices, and represent a
range of relevant First Nations and non-Indigenous
positions and roles in: cultural advocacy leadership
and organisations, academic research and education,
cross-cultural and institutional facilitation and art
practices.