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Spirit of Things: Sound of Objects

A moving sonic response to Indigenous objects and artefacts held in museum collections globally, Spirit of Things: The Sound of Objects is a new music-based performance work by Nardi Simpson and Kaleena Briggs, members of the award-winning musical duo, the Stiff Gins, in collaboration with renowned British director Felix Cross.

Simpson and Briggs became concerned by the disconnection and distance between Indigenous cultural objects in numerous museum collections and their ancestral country. To the artists, objects such as these are more than mere shadows of the past: they are living entities, buzzing with life. Spirit of Things will awaken these objects, unlocking them through music, stories and performance to reconnect them with their communities and creators once more.

 

Credits

Creators & Performers
  • Nardi Simpson and Kaleena Briggs (Stiff Gins)
Director
  • Felix Cross
Designer
  • Lucy Simpson
Lighting Designer
  • Fausto Brusamolino
Video Media Designer
  • Mic Gruchy
Music Director
  • Syd Green
Composition
  • Nardi Simpson, Kaleena Briggs & Syd Green
Guitar, Drums & Percussion
  • Syd Green

Produced by Performing Lines

Commissioned by Performance Space

Information for Presenters

Now available for national and international presentation opportunities.

We are currently developing a tour for 2019 with a deep engagement program – the Spirit Residency Program. Please get in touch to express your interest.

Presentation History

2016
Live Works, Performance Space, Carriageworks
Sydney, NSW
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Full Presentation History for Spirit of Things: Sound of Objects

2016
Live Works, Performance Space, Carriageworks
Sydney, NSW
2017
Yirramboi Festival, Melbourne Recital Centre
Melbourne, VIC

Project Partners & Acknowledgements

In everything we do, we acknowledge that we live on Aboriginal land and constantly learn from the wisdom of First Peoples.

Where we are and the history that precedes us informs how we work and how we move forward.