The community of Lajamanu in partnership with Tracks , funded by an ARC Linkage grant , are partnering with Professor Jennifer Biddle , a social anthropologist with a background in linguistics , who has worked with Warlpiri artists and community members for more than 30 years , and with First Nations new media artists in transnational collaboration since 2014 . She and Dr Sudiipta Dowsett , an anthropologist specialising in global hip hop at UNSW ’ s Ethnographic Media LAB ( emLAB ) in the Big Anxiety Research Centre ( BARC ), are working in partnership with Lajamanu community and Tracks , documenting Milpirri as arts innovation .
The researchers are also collaborating with Warlpiri women from the communities of Lajamanu and Yuendemu on an Indigenous Languages and Arts ( ILA ) project developing archival yawulyu recordings into resources for intergenerational knowledge and teaching purposes .
Milpirri Jelly Wrist Bands , Milpirri 2007 . © Lajamanu Community and Tracks Dance Company . Photo : Peter Eve .
Our collaboration
Jennifer Biddle and Sudiipta Dowsett are working in partnership , on an ARC Linkage , with :
> The community of Lajamanu > Milpirri festival founding Creative Director , Wanta Steve
Patrick Jampijinpa > And Tracks Dance Company , including Artistic co-directors Tim Newth and David McMicken .
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Milpirri is a Warlpiri way to get country to express itself or how to make Jukurrpa [ the Dreaming ] relevant for a 21st Century future ,
” says Wanta Steve Patrick Jampijinpa .
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