Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Walking Through A Songline is a digital exhibition, based in part on the internationally acclaimed exhibition Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters by the Australian National Museum.
Walking Through A Songline in Vietnam
Walking through a Songline is an installation created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Australia and Vietnam.
Information about Walking Through A Songline exhibition
The amazing piece of art encourages viewers to explore an area filled with captivating light displays and to travel in the footsteps of the Seven Sisters as they travel through Australia's Western and Central deserts.
Songlines (or Dreaming) are central to the existence of Australia’s First Nations’ (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) peoples, which depict the ancestral beings' migration pathways across the country as they created the land and its inhabitants. They serve as a means of preserving information and dispersing it to future generations.
The exhibition is a wonderful way to discover and appreciate the traditions of Australia's First Nations people
Location and timing of the exhibition
The exhibition is free to enter and will be open at:
March 21 – April 16, 2023
- The Factory Contemporary Art Center
- 15 Nguyen U Di, Thao Dien Ward, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City
April 28 - May 21, 2023
- Vietnam Women's Museum
- 36 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Hang Bai Ward, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi
Walking Through A Songline exhibition
The exhibition Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters
The exhibition Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters presents one of Australia's core creation tales (songlines). Songlines are cultural channels that span Australia. Songlines chronicles the journeys and actions of the Ancient beings, whose travels formed the country, via tale, song, and visual cultures such as ceremonial performances or rock art. The Seven Sisters songlines depict the story of seven ladies who run through three deserts from a man pursuer with magical abilities.
Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters
The display demonstrates how the sisters' journeys are engraved in terrestrial features and reflected in the night sky, such as the passage of Orion and the Pleiades star cluster. The Seven Sisters songlines communicate fundamental behavioral standards and outline Indigenous Australians' entitlement to their land as well as their obligation to care for it. Songlines provide vital survival information, such as the location of food supplies and water holes, in a turbulent and unpredictable desert environment.
Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters exhibition
The narrative of the Seven Sisters is brought to life via approximately 300 paintings and artifacts, six huge installations, countless videos, pictures, and multimedia stations.
A six-meter-high and six-meter-wide multimedia dome invites tourists on a cinematic and immersive journey to major Seven Sisters sites. Up to 30 people can be virtually transported to Walinynga (Cave Hill) and experience a 360-degree view of this rare Seven Sisters rock art location while sitting or lying down. Within the dome, guests will see the Seven Sisters as digital animations of emotive Tjanpi (grass) figures created for the show by Tjanpi Desert Weavers artisans.
The material above pertains to the Walking Through A Songline exhibition in Vietnam. If you are unable to visit the exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City destination, you may still learn about the cultures of Australia's First Nations people by attending this exhibition in Hanoi destination.
