Baanytaageek : great swamp fragments / Nigel Bertram, N’arwee’t Carolyn Briggs, Catherine Murphy, Rutger Pasman, Ben Waters
- Bib ID:
- 10032904
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bertram, Nigel, author
- Description:
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- Melbourne, Victoria : Monash University Museum of Art, [2023]
- ©2023
- 32 pages : illustrations (some coloured), maps ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780645555820 (paperback)
- Notes:
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- Two hundred years ago, on the estate of the mayonebuluk of the Boon Wurrung language group on warnmain (Western Port Bay), a vast baanytaageek, the Great Swamp, was covered with shallow waters and thick, impenetrable vegetation. With much difficulty, it was comprehensively cleared and drained in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and subdivided for farming, infrastructure and housing. Today we are all custodians to this altered (and degraded) ecosystem after more than a century of extractive processes. Only a few remarkable fragments of the wetland complex remain—such as a raised mound of melaleuca, a tidal inlet edged with mangroves and a dense thicket on a boggy creek bed. This exhibition reveals the intricacies of these particular, isolated and generally inaccessible fragments through moving and still imagery, a geophonic soundscape, Boon Wurrung spoken language, and a layered, archival map of the larger catchment.
- Edition of 500.
- Catalogue of an exhibition presented as part of the collaborative research project "Baanytaageek: Great Swamp Regenerative Park" from 4 February – 1 April 2023 at MUMA.
- Accompanying map:"Baanytaageek : great swamp catchment" drawing by Monash Urban Lab and Rutger Pasman. Scale approximately 1:200,000, coordinates (E 145°11'00"--E 145°56'00"/S 37°53'00"--S 38°23'00").
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
- Boonwurrung language S35
- Subject:
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- Landscape in art -- Exhibitions
- Swamps -- Victoria -- Exhibtions
- Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Landscapes in art -- Exhibitions
- Boonwurrung language S35
- Swamps -- Victoria -- oo Wee Rup -- Maps
- Swamps -- Victoria -- French Island -- Maps
- Koo Wee Rup (Vic.) -- Maps
- French Island Marine National Park (Vic.) -- Maps
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
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- Great swamp fragments
- Map title: Baanytaageek : great swamp catchment.
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2023
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