Australia’s immersive multimedia set up Walking Through A Songline is now on present on the National Art Gallery (NAG) in Kuala Lumpur till Sept 11.
It is NAG’s first worldwide exhibition after being closed for renovation for over two years.
Based on a element of the National Museum of Australia’s internationally acclaimed exhibition Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, which takes guests on a journey alongside the epic Seven Sisters Dreaming tracks, the digital exhibition celebrates Australian Indigenous arts, tradition, and creativity.
Walking Through A Songline provides a multi-sensory digital set up by which guests can immerse themselves in historical Aboriginal Australian information communicated by means of new expertise. The set up can also be a celebration that offers guests the sensation of strolling by means of a “songline” themselves. It is appropriate for all ages.
Songlines, or Dreaming tracks, map the routes of Ancestral beings as they travelled throughout Australia, creating the land and its individuals.
Australia’s High Commissioner to Malaysia Dr Justin Lee mentioned Malaysians had been the primary worldwide viewers to expertise the pop-up model of this digital set up.
“Viewers can immerse themselves within the tales, historical information and inventive ingenuity of the First Australians and achieve an appreciation for his or her distinctive relationship to the land”, the High Commission cited Lee as saying in a press release.
The gentle set up was produced by the National Museum in partnership with Mosster Studio, and supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as a part of its flagship public diplomacy initiative – Australia Now.
Margo Neale, senior Indigenous curator and head of Indigenous knowledges on the National Museum, mentioned, “We have to remind the world that, though this story has historical origins, it has vital up to date relevance and makes use of up to date expertise in addition to extra standard artwork kinds.”
Admission to NAG is free. – Bernama
