Cool Burn Theatre
Victor Steffensen
Jacqueline Gothe
Victor Steffensen
Jacqueline Gothe
The National Museum Australia is currently redesigning the permanent exhibition and have invited Victor Steffensen and Jacqueline Gothe to design a video and sound piece as the final experience of the viewer in the permanent exhibition opening in April 2021 called the Cool Burn Theatre. This installation is located in the final chapter of the Life in Australia gallery: Change. The Change chapter explores how the continent has witnessed immense changes over time and adapted to them, retaining wisdom and suggesting our own capacity to respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene.
It will feature the footage of the cool burn captured at Toolangi and nearby locations in 2018 combined with narration and sound. The video will enable visitors to share in a cultural burn and see how relationships with fire can be shaped by more than catastrophic contexts alone. The video and accompanying audio will convey the contemporary significance of Indigenous knowledge systems and the value of Indigenous people regaining management control over country.
It will feature the footage of the cool burn captured at Toolangi and nearby locations in 2018 combined with narration and sound. The video will enable visitors to share in a cultural burn and see how relationships with fire can be shaped by more than catastrophic contexts alone. The video and accompanying audio will convey the contemporary significance of Indigenous knowledge systems and the value of Indigenous people regaining management control over country.