Brisbane-based Kamilaroi man Warraba Weatherall is mentored by Girramay/ Yidinji / Kuku Yalanji man Tony Albert. His new work builds on his PhD research into the impact of systems of colonial bureaucracy and linguicide on contemporary society.
For My Country Weatherall has fabricated a custom polyphon (a large disc-operated music player) which plays a musical composition created by translating oppressive archival documents into braille. Titled Dirge the steel polyphon implicates the body through sound, and questions why invisible colonial systems and forms, such as monuments, are reflexively accepted.
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