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ᐁ Barbara Glowczewski, Guattari and Anthropology: Existential Territories among Indigenous Australians

ᐃ Michael Rakowitz, Letter to Leonard Cohen

ᐅ Kunmanara Williams, excerpts from Kulinmaya! Keep Listening, everybody!

ᐊ Mz Rizk, Setlist

ᐯ Karla Dickens, A Dickensian Circus

ᐱ Joël Andrianomearisoa, Last Year in Antananarivo

ᐳ Simryn Gill, Bird in Hand

ᐸ Dr Léuli Eshrāghi, Privilégier le plaisir autochtone

ᑌ Jiva Parthipan and Paschal Daantos Berry, Centring NIRIN – Art by Communities as the PRACTICE

ᑎ Gina Athena Ulysse, Basquiat’s Lwas

ᑐ Gina Athena Ulysse, New Rules of Engagement: A Remix

ᑕ Gina Athena Ulysse, A Manifesto for Dreamers

ᑫ Latai Taumopeau, Stitching up the Sea

ᑭ Jota Mombaça, The Birth of Urana

ᑯ Brian Fuata and Tony Schwensen, 9 to 14 (2014)

ᑲ Brook Andrew, Email sent to artists and collaborators from Brook Andrew: Wednesday 8 January 2020

ᕴ Elicura Chihuailaf, Paz Guevara y Olaf Holzapfel, Conversación con Elicura Chihuailaf

Elicura Chihuailaf, Paz Guevera and Olaf Holzapfel, Conversation with Elicura Chihuailaf

ᕵ Joel Davison, Translations of Elicura

ᕷ Andrew Rewald, On the Movement of Plants

Jimmy Frank and Joseph Williams, Bush Medicine

ᕹ Emily Karaka, KINGITANGA KI TE AO >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> IHUMĀTAO: the land >>>>>>MUST be returned to Manawhenua

ᒉ Lucas Ihlein and Kim Williams, Household Plastic Inventory

Lucas Ihlein and Kim Williams, Plastic Free Manifesto

Aunty Barbara Nicholson, WHITEFELLA TRASH IS NOT BIO-DEGRADABLE

ᒋ Erkan Özgen, Aesthetics of Weapons

ᒍ Tarek Lakhrissi, Prelude for Serpent Dream

ᒐ Tony Albert and Hetti Perkins, In conversation

ᒣ Deborah Beck, -Trace, Darlinghurst Gaol

ᒥ Taqralik Partridge, untitled

Taqralik Partridge, For Loretta, For Cindy

Corina Wayali Norman, Dear Bureaucracy

ᒧ Laure Prouvost, Untitled (2019)

ᒪ Maria Thereza Alves, ‘Sou Bugre, Bugre pura.’ ‘I am Bugre, pure Bugre.’, Maria said.

ᓀ Jennifer Lavers, Plastic in the Pacific

シヌイェ:アイヌの女性の刺青 山本栄子さんへのインタビュー マユンキキ

ᓄ Venessa Possum, Ngurra Bayali (Country Speaks)

ᓇ Misheck Masamvu, Still Still

ᓭ Fiston Mwanza Mujila, excerpt from The Slaughterhouse of Dreams or the First Human, Bende’s Error in Boycotting the Creation

ᓯ Melanie Mununggurr, Portal to the Past

ᓱ Tania Bruguera, UNNAMED, 2020

ᓴ Bonney Djuric, Blood & stone

ᓓ Denilson Baniwa, Asmática-Bananeira

ᓕ Tamara Murdock, Cutting Up Country and Counter-Mapping

ᓗ Joseph Williams and Jimmy Frank, Minngalangala Anyula Wilyangka Pakkamarra, From the Edge We’re Holding it Strong, Living on the Edge

Joseph Williams, Apparr Manu Ngara – Story from the Country

ᓚ Stephen Gilchrist, Surfacing histories: Memorials and public art in Perth

ᔦ Bruce Pascoe, Green Cape

ᔨ Marry Ailonieida Somby, excerpt from Thunderbow

ᔪ Charlotte Allingham, Dhaagun, Bagaray-Bang, Yirawy-Dhuray, Gurray, Guyungan, Bila

ᔭ First Dog on the Moon, Invasive, Theft, Best in Show

ᕓ Jessyca Hutchens, Blackbird

Gladys Milroy, The Black Feather

ᕕ Demian DinéYazhi’ and R.I.S.E: Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment, We don’t want a president, A Nation Is a Massacre (Death Toll, A Nation Is a Massacre (Youth Suicide))

ᕗ Colectivo Ayllu, _15 BASIC CONCEPTS SO THAT A WHITE EUROPEAN MIGHT CONSIDER REPARATIONS?

15 CONCEPTOS BÁSICOS PARA QUE UNX EUROBLANCX SE PLANTEE REPARAR_

ᕙ BE. COLLECTIVE CULTURE, We are the New Ancestors

ᕂ Stuart Geddes and Trent Walter, Idea of Centre

Inuktitut syllabic characters are used as a key to locate contributions, which will appear in different orders in different books.

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May reading group

Join the May reading group hosted by Brook Andrew. This month the reading group will use as a leaping off point Brook’s letter to NIRIN artists in the leadup to the Biennale, as bushfires raged across Australia. Register your interest here

Reading Nirin—Gladys Milroy

A series of short readings by artists who have contributed to the 22nd Biennale of Sydney publication, NIRIN NGAAY. In this session Gladys Milroy reads her story ‘The Black Feather’.

Lucky for Some

Watch Brian Fuata perform at the Biennale of Sydney opening week.

An artist’s book by Stuart Geddes and Trent Walter.
Edited by Jessyca Hutchens, Brook Andrew, Stuart Geddes and Trent Walter.
Commissioned for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney.

The Biennale of Sydney team and authors of this publication acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation; the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation; the Bidiagal, Dharawal and Gamaygal people, on whose ancestral lands and waters NIRIN gathers.

NIRIN is a safe place for people to honour mutual respect and the diversity of expression and thoughts that empower us all.

NIRIN NGAAY is a compilation, a collection, a volume, an Artist Book, a Reader, an artwork, a sprawling, excessive heterogenous space of connections. Published as part of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020), titled NIRIN, A Wiradjuri word meaning ‘edge’, this book is a space where ideas, themes, research, and experiments arising out of NIRIN find places on pages. Traversing many disciplines and forms, encompassing new and previously published works, complete works as well as excerpts and fragments and responses, each piece may ask for new modes of reading and seeing. Instead of disorienting, we see many lines darting and weaving across these works, beautiful moments of syncing and overlap, affective and abstract resonances, moments of density, as well as pauses to breathe deeply. Read and see and touch at random or with resolve – we hope that you will appreciate the way these works unfold and twist together, creating movements of meaning between them. ‘NGAAY’ is a Wiradjuri word meaning ‘see.’ To really see ‘edges’, might also be to sense and feel and trace them, they come into view with clarity, hover in the periphery, or drift away like memories.

Buy the book

Copies of NIRIN NGAAY can be purchased at the
Biennale of Sydney Shop

Book credits

First published in 2020 by the Biennale of Sydney Ltd.

Published with generous support from Aesop and the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

This publication is copyright and all rights are reserved. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced or
communicated to the public by any process without prior written permission of the copyright holder.

© Biennale of Sydney Ltd
All texts and artworks © the author or artist.

Published for the exhibition the 22nd Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN, 14 March – 8
June 2020.

ISBN: 978-0-9578023-9-1

Biennale of Sydney
Chief Executive Officer: Barbara Moore
Artistic Director: Brook Andrew
Editors: Jessyca Hutchens, Brook Andrew, Stuart Geddes and Trent Walter
Publications team: Sebastian Henry-Jones, Liz Malcolm and Jodie Polutele

Designed, typeset and printed by Stuart Geddes and Trent Walter on a Heidelberg GTO 52. Some sections printed by Printgraphics and Newsprinters.

The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Biennale of Sydney.

Biennale of Sydney Ltd
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Australia

Film credits

Directed & Edited by
Amy Browne

Camera by
Amy Browne
Jason Heller
Kim Nguyen
Isabella Plaza

Sound by
Ben Coe

Nirin Ngaay