Kepa Kalyakoorl
Winja noonook bidi wah? Nguny kepa bidi. Duba Kan Koorliny! Nidja Kepa nyinniny Kalyakoorl.
Where is your path? My path is the water path. Walk slowly and softly, and here the water will sit forever.
Walking together through place and time, experience the portals to deep waters. To the aquifers, the groundwaters, the water table beneath the city. Here, the water will sit forever. Kepa Kalyakoorl.
Set at Old Customs House and at sites all along the Bilya –
Swan River, Kepa Kalyakoorl asks: what lies beneath our city?
Immerse yourself in glowing and moving springs of light and sound, mapped into the space of the Old Customs House. Inviting awe and curiosity, this new commission imagines the deep waters flowing through Bilya. Breathing, shifting, shaping into deep time. What footprint will you leave in the Noongar universe?
Kepa Kalyakoorl is a collaboration between interdisciplinary artist Cara Teusner-Gartland, environmental designer Daniel Jan Martin and Whadjuk Noongar woman Sandra Harben. With Freda Ogilvie, Bianca Harben and Clancy Martin.
Listen to the Fremantle Biennale Audio Tour
Collaborators
Cara Teusner-Gartland, Daniel Jan Martin and Sandra Harben
Part of the 2021 Fremantle Biennale, presented with support from Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries and Artsource
Photography by Duncan Wright
Art; Exhibition; Soundscape; Cartography; Environmental communication
