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The Sound: Ancestral Listening in The Art And Australia Landscape begins with a pause and invitation to listen: We pay our respects to the final rest of Paiwan Ravar master flautist and vuvu Pairang Pavavaljung (b. 1935 – d. 2023).
This capsule of Translating the Art and Australia Landscape is an exchange and residency project with Indigenous Taiwan. Paiwanese has a distinct grammatical structure from both Mandarin Chinese, lingua franca of Taiwan, and English. Further, the language differed by tribe, village, clan, and social position. There is no standardised Paiwanese, neither does it have an agreed-upon written form. The written form was the non-Paiwanese way.
Working with Etan Creative Vision Art Studio, editors and authors for The Sound looked equally into Paiwanese and non-Paiwanese knowledge forms. It includes a sound piece by Pairang Pavavaljung, a poem by Etan Pavavalung, a textual translation of Howard Morphy’s “Saltwater Country,” and residency and public performances with Art+Australia in October 2024.
Art + Australia Editor-in-Chief: Su Baker Contact: info@artandaustralia.com Receive news from Art + Australia Art + Australia was established in 1963 by Sam Ure-Smith and in 2015 was donated to the Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne by then publisher and editor Eleonora Triguboff as a gift of the ARTAND Foundation. Art + Australia acknowledges the generous support of the Dr Harold Schenberg Bequest and the Centre of Visual Art, University of Melbourne. @Copyright 2022 Victorian College of the Arts The views expressed in Art + Australia are those of the contributing authors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. Art + Australia respects your privacy. Read our Privacy Statement. Art + Australia acknowledges that we live and work on the unceded lands of the people of the Kulin nations who have been and remain traditional owners of this land for tens of thousands of years, and acknowledge and pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging. Art + Australia ISSN 1837-2422
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