Samstag's Kudlila Season Launch
Event description
For our Kudlila season, Samstag presents two exhibitions—one featuring artist responses to the landscape and ecology of the Ikara-Flinders Ranges, the other by Indonesian contemporary artist FX Harsono— that foreground systems of knowledge, Indigenous ways of being, and place.
Mulka Yata/The Knowledge of Place
Friday 7 June—Friday 20 September
Kristian Coulthard (Adnyamathanha) / Sasha Grbich / Antony Hamilton / Kyoko Hashimoto and Guy Keulemans / John R Walker / Music performance and sculpture by Dylan and Christopher Crismani (Wiradjuri/European) / Film featuring Kristian Coulthard by Malcolm McKinnon and Jared Thomas (Nukunu).
Mulka Yata/The Knowledge of Place is a Samstag Museum of Art exhibition with the South Australian Museum.
FX Harsono: NAMA
Friday 7 June—Friday 20 September
FX Harsono (Indonesia)
Samstag will also celebrate the relaunch of Vernon Ah Kee’s (Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Yidindji and Gugu Yimithirr) Kaurna Language Ephemeral Public Art Project: YARA and TAPA MUIYU MARNININTHI, Fenn Place, UniSA City West campus.
Join us for a Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony delivered on Fenn Place by senior Kaurna man Mickey Kumatpi O'Brien (5:30 pm), followed by drinks and a music performance by Dylan Crismani (6 pm) in the gallery.