PRESENT Remedies Tasmania
Sasha Hüber & Petri Saarikko
GASP (Glenorchy Art & Sculpture Park) lutruwita (Tasmania) 2017.
Curated by Jonathan Kimberley
PRESENT Remedies Tasmania by Sasha Hüber (Switzerland/Haiti) & Petri Saarikko (Finland) celebrates the power of oral storytelling. Working in collaboration with Glenorchy’s culturally diverse communities, sharing local-international Tasmanian stories and remedies for health, for culture, or for the world. Collaborating artist, author Arnold Zable described the project as ‘collective wisdom.’
The City of Glenorchy is the fastest growing culturally diverse precinct in the northern suburbs of Greater Hobart. The project was presented in two stages at Glenorchy LINC Library and at GASP on 15 & 16 September 2017. Both events screened the film outdoors, projected onto large walls at full cinema scale (on the back of a supermarket wall and on the blade wall at GASP. A diversity of cultural performances, discussion and food welcomed the audience and brought the process of collaborating with over 50 participants and many organisations alive.
The film is a unique and powerful evocation of the many disarmingly honest stories of journey, migration, survival and celebration.
Special thanks to: Arnold Zable, puralia meenamatta Jim Everett, Fiona Vagg (LINC), Karadi Aboriginal Corporation, Tasmanian Writers Centre, Multicultural Council of Tasmania, Gandel Foundation, Tasmanian Government.
