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Commission for Botany Bay National Park at Kurnell, Sydney
8 channel audio, 8 speakers
About the work
Since the arrival of Captain Cook in 1770, Botany Bay has become a site of British arrival and dispossession of Australian Aboriginal culture. Located one hour south of Sydney, the waterfront has long been dotted with silent monuments to Captain Cook and botanists Banks and Solander.
The sound installation, Landing Place, was created to provide a permanent marker of Aboriginal culture at the site of Captain Cook's landing. The soundscape emerges from the landscape along the Burrawang Walk, from the top of the dune to the creek below.
Leber and Chesworth worked with adults and children from the La Perouse Aboriginal community in Sydney, with traditional singing led by key local Aboriginal Glen Timbery. The soundscape is alive with voices and singing, and the activities of tool-making, Bundi-carving, clapsticks-making and shellwork.
Included are the voices of La Perouse Aboriginal elders and children from Matraville Soldiers Settlement Primary School and La Perouse Public School.
Acknowledgements
The work is part of a redevelopment commissioned by New South Wales Government with a design team led by Freeman Ryan Design. Voices: Children from Matraville Soldiers Settlement Primary School and La Perouse Public School, Glen Timbery, Dean Kelly, Calita Murray, Esme Russell, Marilyn Russell, Sharon Williams.
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