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Paper short abstract

The Miyarrka Media collective create screen based installations for museums and art galleries. They will describe their sensuous strategies designed attract and engage international audiences and why they claim this work as a yuta, or new, anthropology.

Paper long abstract

The Miyarrka Media collective create screen based installations for museums and art galleries. Based in the Yolngu community of Gapuwiyak they have exhibited in the US, Europe, Australia and, most recently, in Taiwan. In this presentation three members of the collective will describe an curation figured in terms of creating a field of attraction, sensation and surprise and why they claim this work as a yuta, or new, anthropology.