Experiencing Jigurru: Mangal Bungal (Clever Hands)
Experiencing Jigurru: Mangal Bungal (Clever Hands)
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Queensland MuseumStart date
2023-07-07End date
2023-07-09Language
English; Guugu YimithirrNotes
Experiencing Jigurru: Mangal Bungal (NAIDOC Public Notes) Taking place during NAIDOC Week 2023, the Dingaal community from the northeast coast of Australia lead Mangal Bungal: Clever Hands: three-days of cultural events from 7-9 July 2023. Dingaal stories are entwined with Country and Mangal Bungal: Clever Hands brings remote Jiigurru (Lizard Island) Country to Queensland Museum through artworks made from natural materials from Jiigurru and a fulldome, immersive planetarium experience of the island and its cultural sites. The program celebrates traditional knowledge and stories of walking on Country through dance, storytelling, hands-on workshops, and immersive digital projections. https://www.naidoc.org.au/get-involved/naidoc-week-events/mangal-bungal-clever-hands Experiencing Jigurru: Mangal Bungal (Queensland Museum Public Notes - excerpt) The Dingaal community from the northeast coast of Australia will lead Mangal Bungal: Clever Hands: 3-days of cultural events from 7-9 July 2023. The program brings to life traditional knowledge and stories of walking on Country through dance, storytelling, hands-on workshops, and immersive digital projections. Mangal Bungal means “clever with hands” in Guugu Yimithirr language and is about connecting culture and spirituality and using your hands to create. Dingaal stories are entwined with Country and Mangal Bungal: Clever Hands brings this remote Country to Queensland Museum through artworks made from natural materials from Jiigurru (Lizard Island) and a planetarium video of the island and its cultural sites. Coinciding with the closing of the Connections across the Coral Sea exhibition, Dingaal stories will be told with voices, hands, and natural materials, giving visitors a unique opportunity to connect with and understand Dingaal Country, culture, and traditions. The three-day event, taking place during NAIDOC Week and celebrating the theme For Our Elders, will provide visitors with the unique opportunity to meet and hear from the Dingaal people and go on a learning journey to understand the connection between Country, story, and the cultural and historical significance of the Coral Sea. Program details (excerpt) Welcome to Country Join us for the opening of Mangal Bungal: Clever Hands with a special Welcome to Country, traditional dance and didgeridoo performances. Experience Jiigurru On Country Planetarium experience Immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of beautiful Dingaal Country. Step inside the planetarium style dome and be transported to Jiigurru (Lizard Island). Mangal Bungal: Clever Hands is a Queensland Museum event created in partnership with the Dingaal people through the Walmbaar Aboriginal Corporation, and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH). The event is also supported by James Cook University, UNSW Sydney, University of Wollongong, Deakin University and Monash University. The research presented in the associated Connections across the Coral Sea exhibition was undertaken by CABAH in partnership with the Walmbaar Aboriginal Corporation and Hope Vale Congress Aboriginal Corporation. https://www.museum.qld.gov.au/queensland-museum/whats-on/mangal-bungal-clever-handsResearch statement
Background Jiigurru (Lizard Island) on the Great Barrier Reef is sacred to many, including the Dingaal community. This immersive video for fulldome and planetariums explores the entanglement of Indigenous knowledges connected to Jigurru and emerging archaeological research which illustrates deep and ongoing connection to the islands dating to at least 6500 years ago. Through 360 VR drone cinematography, drone and phone-based photogrammetry of landscapes and cultural artefacts, high resolution laser scans of shell midden sites, and cultural objects including Lakatois (Papuan-style canoes) a unique cultural landscape is visualised transporting viewers to a remote island. Contribution Since 2018, researchers working with Dingaal people have found almost 1500 stone arrangements made by the ancestors - the most densely packed field of stone arrangements ever found in Australia. Stone arrangements feature both figurative and geometric arrangements. Figurative arrangements are all totemic sea animals illustrating the importance of sea country dreaming to Dingaal. Analysis of a shell midden site on the south island of Jigurru reveals a record of 6500 years of human occupation as well as the first Indigenous made ceramics dated to 2250 years, made on Jigurru using a technique that appears to be consistent with Lapita ceramics. Significance Through visualising this complex, remote cultural site viewers are transported to a unique expression of Dingaal culture and emerging archaeology. The immersive video is co-created with Dingaal elder Kenneth McLean and sees totemic sea animals animated out of photogrammetry of stone arrangements, as well as innovative presentation of high resolution laser scans of the shell midden site combined with animation of artefacts found within them. The video was presented in a unique portable planetarium as part of a large scale installation at Queensland Museum in July with over 4000 people viewing the work over 3 days.Publication classification
JR1 Recorded/Rendered Creative Works – Film/VideoScale
NTRO MinorExtent
Fulldome planetarium video (7 minutes); museum installationEditor/Contributor(s)
McLean K, Jackson S, Ulm S, McNiven I, Franzke D, Walbrook SEvent
Experiencing Jigurru: Mangal Bungal (Clever Hands). Exhibition (2023 : Brisbane, Queensland)Publisher
ARC Centre of Excellence of Australian Biodiversity and Heritage; Queensland MuseumPlace of publication
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