tRAKa-tRAKn

Please join us for the inaugural preview of tRAKa-tRAKn a new 3 channel video & sound installation by r e a

r e a (Dr Regina Saunders) is from the Gamilaraay, Wailwan and Biripi peoples of NSW. r e a is an experimental interdisciplinary artist / curator / activist / researcher/ cultural educator and creative thinker.

Their creative practise-led research extends over three decades and often focuses on unveiling the silence of the colonial archive. Their creative practice also explores the reclamation and reframing of the blak body, as they re-story Indigeneity and blakness!

This new work tRAKa-tRAKn is a video project, which was filmed entirely on location: in the Warrumbungle’s and the Pilliga Scrub, currently under attack from fracking.

 r e a produced this new work with funding support from: Create NSW & Creative Australia.

The work was created in consultation with the Coonabarabran Indigenous Elders Group.

The launch is a free event and is open to the public

(we advise that children under 12 need to be accompanied by an adult)

Artist - r e a
For over three decades, r e a, has worked at the forefront of Australian Indigenous new media practice and theory within Australia and internationally. They most recently exhibited a new sensor driven interactive digital work: Native (yugal/song), at Griffith University Art Museum, which incorporates video and motion-driven sensors that enable viewers to use their bodies to experience the sound and then to perceive it in a range of visual forms. The work was presented as part of ISEA2024 which brought together artists, scientists and scholars from around the world to explore the intersections between art, science and technology. This year’s conference theme; ‘Everywhen’, explored the human perception of space and time. The word ‘Everywhen’ reminds us that the past, present and future are always present in any given location.

r e a was also included in the Biennale of Sydney 2024, they were commissioned to make a new work; GARI (language). This work consisted of two large language banners, exhibited on the outside of the Artspace building in Sydney, The text on the banner’s depicted the word, ‘SUN’ in Gamilaraay (YARAAY), Wailwan (DHUNI) and Biripi (TOONAU) languages.

r e a's work is centred in the visual arts and located in experimental digital technologies, their work intentionally, disrupts and disturbs the history of silence by consciously drawing on a legacy of lived experience, ancestral knowledge, the impact of intergenerational trauma and grief and loss. 'My art is the practice of reclamation; a disruption of the colonial gaze through re-storying the blak-body as a point of protest.'