Transmission of Nunga Heritage through video: Identity like my Nan's Squeezebox has Hidden Folds

Presentation Topic: Cultural heritage: access and control - personal context

ABSTRACT:

This paper concerns a personal perspective of the transmission and protection of cultural heritage and memory. It involves the screening of extracts from Squeezebox, a video about the author and her family returning to country. The video contains the perspectives of three generations of Nungas, mediated through the camera lens. The presentation examines issues surrounding the translation of oral cultures into digital media & the role of cultural memory within global capitalist media structures. This work speaks from a personal perspective to issues surrounding Indigenous subjectivity, notions of homeplaces, location, land and memory and the transmission of intergenerational knowledges.

BIONOTE:

Ali Gumillya Baker is a Mirning woman, whose family come from the West Coast of South Australia. Ali is a filmmaker, who has a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) and has recently submitted her masters thesis in Screen Studies at Flinders University. She is a lecturer at Yuggorendi, First nation Centre for Higher Education and Research at Flinders University, Adelaide.