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  • The Australia Pavilion Venice, Veneto, 30100 Italy (map)

Place holds memory, of everyone who has ever lived there and waits in anticipation of future generations that will call it home.

How do we enliven the memory of place through the stories we tell, the songs we sing and the trace of our movement?

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SPEAKERS
Franca Tamisari
Franca Tamisari

Franca Tamisari, coordinator of the MA in 'Cultural Anthropology Ethnology and Anthropological Linguistics' (ACEL) in the Dept. of Humanities, was granted an MA and PhD in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1994 and has carried out research in Northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia from 1990.

More recently she also carried out research in North Queensland, and in the Lagoon of Venice.  Her main research areas include: Australian Indigenous cosmologies and onto-epistemologies; the anthropology of art and performance (with a focus on  the political and aesthetic dimension of ritual and on dance and performative practices in local and intercultural contexts); bicultural education (development and integration of Indigenous pedagogy in compulsory schooling); the repatriation of Indigenous cultural heritage; anthropology of tourism; history of colonial, postcolonial and neocolonial relations in Australia; methodologies of the anthropological encounter (politics of representation, personal acquaintance). Recently, she started an ethnographic research on the ecological knowledge of fishermen and hunters in the Venice Lagoon.  

Clarence Slockee
Clarence Slockee

Clarence Slockee, Founding Director of Jiwah, is a Bundjalung Aboriginal man, environmentalist, and educator. He works with design partners and specialists to embed traditional knowledge and cultural learning into projects.  

Clarence shares culture globally through performance and art, connecting people with plants and restoring natural systems using First Nations design principles. 

Prof. Emily Mcdaniel
Prof. Emily Mcdaniel

Emily McDaniel is a Wiradjuri curator, creative practitioner and a Professor of Practice in the School of Architecture, UTS. She consults on curatorship, cultural narratives, learning and interpretation for cultural institutions, public domain, and the built environment.

Her practice applies Country-centred curatorial methodologies in collaboration with First Nations communities, cultural and creative practitioners, architects, and designers to story and truth-tell. She is recognised for her influential curatorial methodologies which place emphasis on expansive cultural practice, encompassing visual art, design, storytelling, language, performance, Indigenous knowledges, cultural governance, and nation building methodologies. 

Jack Gillmer-Lilley
Jack Gillmer-Lilley

Jack Gillmer-Lilley (Worimi & Biripi Guri) is an associate and First Nations lead at SJB, visiting and working on Gadigal Country. He advocates First Nations leadership and co-design, exploring the intersection of cultural knowledge systems and the built environment with an interest in multi-sensory experiences and unlocking ancient-living infrastructure through language.

As Creative Director for the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2025, and through his research as recipient of the Galang Residency collaboration between Powerhouse Museum x Cite Internationale des arts (Paris) in 2024, Jack looks forward to extending conversations about reframing museology and Indigenising institutional architecture and processes. 

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