STILL LANDING

A major practice-based outcome of Gretel Taylor's PhD, Still Landing was a 3-screen installation, which included a live performance in some iterations. Filmed on Warlpiri country (Purtulu) in Northern Territory, Gretel explores her relationship, as a white woman of European descent, with this Aboriginal place.  Gretel consulted with senior Warlpiri custodians on sites for the film and some of these women's voices are featured in the soundtrack singing Tjurkurpa (Dreaming) songs of Country.

​Still Landing was presented at Arts House Meat Market, North Melbourne (2008), Desert Park Alice Springs as part of Shifting Ground (2007), SEAM conference, Critical Path Sydney (2009), Dancehouse as part of ReelDance (2009), and Time, Transcendence, Performance conference at Monash University (2009). This is a short excerpt of the 25-minute work.

Gretel Taylor PhD exegesis Locating: Place and the Moving Body can be downloaded here:
I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi wurrung and neighbouring Bunurong and Boon wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands on which I live, work and dance. I pay deep respect to their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. I extend that respect to Traditional Owners of the many Countries on which I undertake my work and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. I pay deep respect to First Nations elders past and present, who have listened to Country and danced, sung and told stories in and about their places for millennia.