Award-winning digital artist Jazz Money is the recipient of the RE/Vision commission, receiving $25,000 to create an audiovisual piece interpreting the NFSA collection to offer an authentic and contemporary vision of Australia.
WINHANGANHA
Jazz Money. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Wiradjuri filmmaker and poet, Jazz Money, will use the national audiovisual collection to create a new digital work, after being announced as the recipient of the NFSA’s RE/Vision commission.
Currently based on sovereign Gadigal land in Sydney, Jazz’s digital work appears online and in various galleries and museums nationally. Her poetry has been published widely across Australia, and reimagined as murals, visual art and video art. She will work closely with NFSA curatorial and technical experts, utilising the digital collection to answer the question ‘Who Are We Now?’
The title of Jazz’s work, WINHANGANHA, is a Wiradjuri word that loosely translates to ‘remember, know, think’ in English. She said the film will provide a ‘revisioning of Australian audiovisual history that centralises dance, performance, orality, gathering and protest, to celebrate a unique identity that is formed through creative expression, legacy and resilience’.
‘The NFSA presents a place that is loaded with gaze and coloniality, yet records a link to us and our stories,’ she said. ‘Working with archival footage has led me to consider the relationship between our recorded knowledges, and how we create new futures through that which we inherit.
‘My concept proposes an Indigenous perspective and lyrical journey through the NFSA collection, focusing on the human body as a location of expression and empowerment.’
