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Program Details
Dr Craig San Roque
Japaljarri’s Vision - on two way/ black/white working - beginning with Andrew Japaljarri Spencer’s 1990 (HALT) painting on Two Way governance; his famous 1993, Thinking about Young People, where he looks creatively at bi-cultural law and potentials for the future; 2011 Eagle and Crow, on making that choice and his final 2015 painting on the conflict between two snakes - Ngankari Jungarai Wanu - on wrestling with poisonous psychic contaminations. The ‘wrestle’ demonstrates present tension in Central Australia.
Mourning Melancholia and the Echo Effect is about the emotional and psychic effects of working together in the pressure systems of Central Australia - first outlined in the NPY Women’s Council conference, 2019. It looks into unconscious thoughts and feelings stirred up between people of different cultures when we live and work together, especially in this part of the country.
Features paintings by Rod Moss whose life work exemplifies the ‘two way’ attitude. See his books, The Hard Light Of Day and 1,000 Cuts.
Pamela Nathan
Pamela seeks to open a dialogue with workers at the frontline about what can facilitate two-way working in a monstering trauma landscape that straddles a racial divide and different cultural words in Central Australia.
The monster world heralds a tsunami ‘too much’, terra nullius ‘too little’, ruptures, rollercoaster rides and contaminated knowing. Two way implies a relational companionship and a working together in a healing process. Pamela will highlight several psychoanalytic concepts that inform the work of CASSE and provide a foundation to navigate and transform the emotional turbulence, uncertainty, and psychic dread associated with profound trauma in the intercultural relational spaces.
Such concepts can be applied to two-way community work and become tools to promote ways of recognizing and responding to emotional experience, assisting team members and collaborators to process their own emotional experiences through intense and challenging psychological work. Pamela will talk about the work of CASSE and present some vignettes.
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