CABAHCAST: Recent Episodes
CABAHCAST
CABAHCAST goes behind the scenes of research, education and engagement activities of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage.
This podcast by Fiona Gruber explores the making of Ngurruwarra/Derndernyin, a 20-metre-long by 2-metre-wide canvas painting by ten Kaiadilt, Lardil, and Gangalidda artists celebrating culture, story, and relationships across the seas, lands, and skies of the Traditional Owner communities throughout the Wellesley Islands region.
Each artist painted multiple sections of the canvas, negotiating with each other to ensure continuity of story across contiguous elements of the canvas.
The artwork is a CABAH Art Series commission created in association with Mirndiyan Gununa Aboriginal Corporation, Mornington Island Art (MIArt).
In this episode of CABAHCAST, podcaster Fiona Gruber reports on the value of gamified learning, and CABAH's popular educational board game Go Extinct! Megafauna
In this episode of CABAHCAST, podcaster Fiona Gruber follows Dingaal woman and Walmbaar Aboriginal Corporation co-Director Tanya Yoren and other members of the Dingaal community from Australia’s Northeast Coast and Jiigurru (Lizard Island) as they bring Mangal Bungal: Clever Hands, a unique community-led cultural festival, to Queensland Museum visitors during NAIDOC Week 2023.
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Podcast by Fiona Gruber
Music (didgeridoo) by Stephen Pilcher
Interviewees (in order of appearance)
- Associate Professor Lizzie Muller, CABAH Chief Investigator (UNSW) and Mangal Bungal engagement advisor
- Dr Bianca Beetson – Director First Nations Engagement, Queensland Museum Network
- Tanya Yoren, Mangal Bungal creative lead and Director of Walmbaar Aboriginal Corporation
- Bryanne Darken Yoren, Dingaal Community leader and performer
- Vernon Yoren, Dingaal Community leader and performer
- Stanton Thompson, Dingaal Community leader and performer
- Distinguished Professor Sean Ulm, CABAH Chief Investigator (JCU) and Coral Sea Flagship co-leader
- Professor Ian McNiven, CABAH Chief Investigator and Coral Sea Flagship co-leader
In this four-part episode of CABAHCAST, we learn more about Connections Across the Coral Sea: A story of movement, a Queensland Museum exhibition that draws on research conducted by CABAH’s Coral Sea Flagship team in partnership with Dingaal and Ngurrumungu Traditional Owners of the Jiigurru (Lizard Island) region.
In this episode (Part 4) CABAH journalist Fiona Gruber speaks to anthropological archaeologist Distinguished Professor Sean Ulm from James Cook University and Kenneth McLean, Walmbaar Aboriginal Corporation Chairperson and Dingaal spokesperson about their collaboration on Jiigurru (Lizard Island). It’s a journey of mutual respect, listening and learning, and a departure from Colonial influences on anthropological and archaeological research in the recent past. Read more.
Cover art photo by Ariana Lambrides.
In this three-part episode of CABAHCAST, we learn more about Connections Across the Coral Sea: A story of movement, a Queensland Museum exhibition that draws on research conducted by CABAH’s Coral Sea Flagship team in partnership with Dingaal and Ngurrumungu Traditional Owners of the Jiigurru (Lizard Island) region. Read more.
In this three-part episode of CABAHCAST, we learn more about Connections Across the Coral Sea: A story of movement, a Queensland Museum exhibition that draws on research conducted by CABAH’s Coral Sea Flagship team in partnership with Dingaal and Ngurrumungu Traditional Owners of the Jiigurru (Lizard Island) region. Read more.
In this three-part episode of CABAHCAST, we learn more about Connections Across the Coral Sea: A story of movement, a Queensland Museum exhibition that draws on research conducted by CABAH’s Coral Sea Flagship team in partnership with Dingaal and Ngurrumungu Traditional Owners of the Jiigurru (Lizard Island) region. Read more.
In this episode of CABAHCAST, journalist and CABAH media consultant Fiona Gruber captures the story of how Canberra/Ngunawal/Ngambri-based artist and researcher UK Frederick created her work Unseeded.
Unseeded (2022) comprises 35 hand-blown glass boab nuts – one for each site with evidence of human occupation that researchers surveyed on an archaeological survey trip to the Ningbing Range with CABAH Chief Investigator Sue O’Connor from The Australian National University (ANU), Miriuwung Gajerrong rangers and Traditional Owners, archaeologists from the University of Western Australia and volunteer ecologists.
UK Frederick travelled with the archaeological survey team to the Kimberley region of Western Australia in May 2019. During their trip, the team observed the mature boab trees that inspired the artwork.
UK Frederick is an artist and researcher with a PhD in Visual Arts from The Australian National University. Ursula brings processes of contemporary archaeology to her art practice to reflect the methods, analysis and histories of Australian archaeological research and how it’s communicated.
Unseeded was commissioned by the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH) for CABAH's Art Series and now resides with the University of Wollongong Art Collection.
Where Lakes Once Had Water is a sensorial video and sound installation by Sonia Leber and David Chesworth that transports its audience to remote ancient dry lakes of Australia's Northern Territory. In this episode of CABAHCAST, journalist and CABAH media consultant Fiona Gruber goes behind the scenes of the artwork's production and the science that inspired it.
Where Lakes Once Had Water was commissioned by the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH) as part of CABAH's Art Series. The work was commissioned in association with the Bundanon Trust.