Multimedia installation exhibition celebrates Vietnam-Australia diplomatic ties
HCM City (VNA) – As part of celebrations to mark the 50th founding anniversary of Australia-Vietnam diplomatic relations, the Australian Embassy in Vietnam on March 22 opened a multimedia installation exhibition named “Walking through a Songline” in Ho Chi Minh City.
The remarkable work invites visitors to
enter a space of immersive light projections, following
in the footsteps of the Seven Sisters as they traverse the Western and Central deserts
of Australia.
Songlines (or Dreaming) are central to the existence of
Australia’s First Nations’ (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) peoples, mapping
the routes of Ancestral beings as they travelled across Australia, creating the
land and its people. They are a way of holding and passing on knowledge to new
generations.
Australian Consul-General Sarah
Hooper said that the exhibition is an opportunity
to learn about and celebrate the cultures of Australia’s First Nations people.
An explanatory video featuring Margo Neale, Senior
Indigenous Curator and Head of Indigenous Knowledges at the National Museum,
can be viewed on the Australian Embassy Facebook page.
The exhibition is free to enter and is opened to the public at
The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, 15 Nguyen U Di in Thu Duc
City every day until April 16. It will then move
to the Vietnamese Women’s Museum in Hanoi from April 28 to May 21./.