Follow in the steps of the Seven Sisters and experience the immersive nature of a songline in this multi-sensory digital installation. Surrender your understandings of time and space, and experience Indigenous storytelling as this ancient narrative comes alive through new technology.
Walking through a Songline is a pop-up, digital experience developed with guidance from cultural custodians and artists from the central and Western Desert regions.
Visitors make their way through projections that show, in an artistic and striking way, a songline that follows the tracks of the Seven Sisters Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) across the Western and Central deserts of Australia, as they are chased by a male pursuer. Their encounters are imprinted in the features of the land and tell of where to find food and water and how to behave correctly.
All Ancestral journeys create songlines, which can be seen as pathways or corridors of knowledge. The stories they hold for the foundational history of the Australian continent, as told by artists, custodians and traditional owners.
Walking through a Songline is an immersive experience at the nexus of ancient knowledge and new technology.