Additional Materials – Guggenheim YouTube Selection

Browse the Guggenheim YouTube selections for additional materials.  23000 videos were submitted from 91 countries, 25 were chosen.  My pick: Bathtub IV (is it real?)

The ultimate YouTube playlist: a selection of the most unique, innovative, groundbreaking video work being created and distributed online during the past two years.

Skrzynecki Essay from the Griffith Review

I feel like I’ve hit the jackpot today with this essay from the Griffith Review written by Peter Skrzynecki.  The 6th issue of the Griffith Review also contains a brilliant introduction discussing global village and belonging.

“Of course, I am an Australian citizen and there is a piece of paper, a citizenship certificate, to prove that, as well as a passport. I feel an affinity to Australia like to no other country and would not live anywhere else. And yet, and yet, at the strangest times, a feeling stirs in the bones, in the blood, and memories of Europe emerge, memories that exist irrespective of time or where I am at the moment, and I know that I was born somewhere else and that place will always exist for me as a source of inspiration.”

Skrzynecki, P. Two wives in Krakow and a house in Treptow. GriffithREVIEW Issue 6: Our Global Place

Download a pdf of the essay here.

Belonging – An Indigenous Perspective

Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stockroute is an exhibition at the National Museum that explains the powerful notion of belonging to family and to place for the Aboriginal people of the Canning Stockroute in Western Australia.  Their art is more than just image; it is story, spirit and connection to the land.

This was where our people got together as one, along these wells. Our grandfathers too. They was all as one people, don’t matter [that they they're from] different tribes. They came here, stay for a while, and then go back home.Patrick Olodoodi (Alatuti) Tjungurrayi, Kilykily (Well 36), 2007