In 'Hold Me', audiences listen in on a frustrated phone conversation between Adelaide-based artist Brad Darkson and a Centrelink worker trying to unravel the ramifications of a robo-debt, interspersed by the relentless sound of the hold music. While we're all working from home due to COVID-19, Samstag curator Gillian Brown discusses this eerily prescient work with Darkson, over the phone.
Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.
Recorded remotely in Tarntanya/Adelaide by Denam Moore of the Message Pod in April 2020.

<div>In 'Hold Me', audiences listen in on a frustrated phone conversation between Adelaide-based artist Brad Darkson and a Centrelink worker trying to unravel the ramifications of a robo-debt, interspersed by the relentless sound of the hold music. While we're all working from home due to COVID-19, Samstag curator Gillian Brown discusses this eerily prescient work with Darkson, over the phone.</div><div><br></div><div>Bold, creative and responsive to contemporary visual art, Samstag Museum of Art is one of Australia's leading university art museums. For more, see unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum.</div><div><br></div><div>Recorded remotely in Tarntanya/Adelaide by Denam Moore of the Message Pod in April 2020.</div>

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In 'Hold Me', audiences listen in on a frustrated phone conversation between Adelaide-based artist Brad Darkson and a Centrelink worker...

Brad Darkson / Hold Me

Dr Irene Watson (Tanganekald, Meintangk, Bunganditj and Potaruwutj) sits down with Dr Vernon Ah Kee (Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Gugu Yimithirr and Koko Berrin) for a yarn, six years after the pair first worked together on Vernon’s commission to create an ephemeral site-specific artwork of Kaurna language words on the grounds of UniSA, City West campus. Recently refreshed, the artwork embeds Kaurna concepts, extending Vernon’s long-standing commitment to art activism and a language-based practice.

The pair talk candidly and with a great sense of mutual respect about reciprocity, justice, and the importance of speaking truth as two First Nations people contending with a settler culture that only wants to hear ‘happy’ stories.  

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<p>Dr Irene Watson (Tanganekald, Meintangk, Bunganditj and Potaruwutj) sits down with Dr Vernon Ah Kee (Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Gugu Yimithirr and Koko Berrin) for a yarn, six years after the pair first worked together on Vernon’s commission to create an ephemeral site-specific artwork of Kaurna language words on the grounds of UniSA, City West campus. Recently refreshed, the artwork embeds Kaurna concepts, extending Vernon’s long-standing commitment to art activism and a language-based practice.</p>
<p>The pair talk candidly and with a great sense of mutual respect about reciprocity, justice, and the importance of speaking truth as two First Nations people contending with a settler culture that only wants to hear ‘happy’ stories.  </p>
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Dr Irene Watson (Tanganekald, Meintangk, Bunganditj and Potaruwutj) sits down with Dr Vernon Ah Kee (Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Gugu Yimithirr and Koko Berrin) for a yarn

Vernon Ah Kee and Irene Watson - Yara Yarning

Saudi/Palestinian artist Dana Awartani joins Samstag Curator Anna Zagala to discuss her art practice, living between cultures, and the importance of her unique art education in both contemporary art and traditional crafts, in shaping her art practice and career. 

Dana shares the background to the two moving image installation works currently on display at Samstag Museum of ArtI Went Away and Forgot You. A While Ago I Remembered. I Remembered I’d Forgotten You. I Was Dreaming and Listen to my Words, her passion forgeometry and what being Arab means to her.

ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting. It is produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide. The conversation was recorded on 4 April 2023.

<p>Saudi/Palestinian artist Dana Awartani joins Samstag Curator Anna Zagala to discuss her art practice, living between cultures, and the importance of her unique art education in both contemporary art and traditional crafts, in shaping her art practice and career. </p>
<p>Dana shares the background to the two moving image installation works currently on display at Samstag Museum of Art<em> </em><em>I Went Away and Forgot You. A While Ago I Remembered. I Remembered I’d Forgotten You. I Was Dreaming</em> and <em>Listen to my Words, </em>her passion for<em> </em>geometry and what being Arab means to her.</p>
<p>ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting. It is produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide. The conversation was recorded on 4 April 2023.</p>

We talk to Saudi/Palestinian artist Dana Awartani about art practice, living between cultures, and the importance of unique art education in both contemporary art and traditional craft.

Dana Awartani

Artist Hayley Millar Baker (Gunditjmara/Djabwurrung) joins Anna Zagala, Associate Curator at Samstag Museum of Art, to discuss her moving image work, Nycyninasty (2021) currently screening at Samstag as part of the 4th Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony curated by Hetti Perkins for the NGA. 

Hayley shares what prompted her to pivot from photography to moving image, how the pressure of the pandemic lockdowns created a shift in her work, and what fuels her art practice.

ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide. The conversation was recorded on 30 October 2023.

<p>Artist Hayley Millar Baker (Gunditjmara/Djabwurrung) joins Anna Zagala, Associate Curator at Samstag Museum of Art, to discuss her moving image work, <em>Nycyninasty </em>(2021) currently screening at Samstag as part of the 4t<em>h</em><em> Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony </em>curated by Hetti Perkins for the NGA. </p>
<p>Hayley shares what prompted her to pivot from photography to moving image, how the pressure of the pandemic lockdowns created a shift in her work, and what fuels her art practice.</p>
<p>ON ART is supported by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Solstice Podcasting and produced by Tilly Balding in Tarntanya/Adelaide. The conversation was recorded on 30 October 2023.</p>

Artist Hayley Millar Baker (Gunditjmara/Djabwurrung) joins Anna Zagala, Associate Curator at Samstag Museum of Art, to discuss her moving image work, Nycyninasty (2021) currently screening at Samstag as part of the 4th Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony curated by Hetti Perkins for the NGA.

Brad Darkson / Hold Me

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