{"id":101227,"date":"2025-03-17T10:44:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T05:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=101227"},"modified":"2025-03-17T10:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T05:22:24","slug":"australian-first-nations-art-and-digital-storytelling-exhibition-walking-through-a-songline-strikes-a-chord-in-goa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=101227","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Walking through a songline\u2019 strikes a chord in Goa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goa Khabar :\u00a0 Ancient Australian First Nations\u2019 knowledge meets cutting-edge technology at \u2018Walking Through A Songline,\u2019 an immersive and digital art exhibition that brings the storytelling of Australia’s First Nations\u2019 people to Goa.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hosted at the Museum of Goa (MOG) in Pilerne, the ongoing exhibition, which was inaugurated by Christian Jack, Australian Deputy Consul General in Mumbai recently, reimagined the Seven Sisters Songline, one of Australia\u2019s oldest indigenous narratives, through digital artistry, drawing unexpected connections to India\u2019s own oral and artistic traditions.<\/p>\n

Songlines, also called dreaming tracks, are a way of holding and passing on knowledge in non-text-based societies. These are millennia-old pathways of knowledge in the form of story, performance and art, that span the entire Australian continent, forming its foundational stories. The Songlines map the routes and activities of ancestral \u2018creator beings\u2019 that explain creation and transmit cultural values, including protocols of behaviour and living sustainably on the continent.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Subodh Kerkar, founder and director of the Museum of Goa (MOG), was joined by Christian Jack, Australian Deputy Consul General in Mumbai, at the opening of the exhibition.<\/p><\/div>\n

Presented by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the National Museum of Australia and produced by the Melbourne-based Mosster Studio, the exhibition uses digital craft to take a relook at Australia’s epic Seven Sisters Songline, an ancient tale of pursuit, survival of the continent’s First Nations\u2019 people and cosmic connections. Interpreting the work of more than 100 artists, the exhibition transported visitors into the heart of Australian First Nations\u2019 storytelling, drawing unexpected parallels with Goa’s own prehistoric art, like the Usgalimal petroglyphs in Quepem.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndigenous art is often sidelined as \u2018primitive\u2019 when in reality, it is as contemporary as any other form of artistic expression,\u201d said Museum of Goa founder director Dr Subodh Kerkar. \u201cThis exhibition extends the spirit of Reconciliation Place in Canberra and Australia\u2019s efforts to celebrate its First Nations\u2019 people.\u201d Reconciliation Place in the Australian capital of Canberra is a public space dedicated to acknowledging the continent’s indigenous history, culture and the ongoing journey of reconciliation in Australia.<\/p>\n

Australian Deputy Consul General, Christian Jack, highlighted the exhibition\u2019s broader significance. \u201cWe are thrilled with the response ‘Walking Through A Songline’ is receiving in Goa. Songlines, like India\u2019s oral traditions, are ancestral maps of knowledge, passed down through generations. The multi-sensory art exhibition showcased the power of digital storytelling in preserving one of the world\u2019s oldest cultures and it has been an honour to share this experience with the people of Goa.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibition at the MOG in Pilerne represents the last leg of the exhibition’s India tour and will be open for public viewing till April 4.<\/p>\n

Beyond the digital installation, the exhibition features workshops, storytelling sessions and interactive activities, ensuring engagement beyond the screen. The India tour of ‘Walking Through A Songline’ has been organised in tandem with the Centre for Australia-India Relations (CAIR), Deakin University, Tata BlueScope Steel and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goa Khabar :\u00a0 Ancient Australian First Nations\u2019 knowledge meets cutting-edge technology at \u2018Walking Through A Songline,\u2019 an immersive and digital art exhibition that brings the storytelling of Australia’s First Nations\u2019 people to Goa. Hosted at the Museum of Goa (MOG) in Pilerne, the ongoing exhibition, which was inaugurated by Christian Jack, Australian Deputy Consul General […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":101231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-101227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101232,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101227\/revisions\/101232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/101231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}