Home Participants 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022) Moogahlin Performing Arts with Aanmitaagzi Big Medicine Studio
Moogahlin Performing Arts with Aanmitaagzi Big Medicine Studio

Moogahlin Performing Arts
Aanmitaagzi Big Medicine Studio

Moogahlin Performing Arts
Aanmitaagzi Big Medicine Studio
Moogahlin Performing Arts
Lead Artists
Lily Shearer Murrawarri
Dr Liza-Mare Syron Biripi
Aanmitaagzi Big Medicine Studio
Lead Artists
Penny Couchie Ojibway, Mohawk
Megan Lozicki Paulin Mi’kmaq
Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from Canada Council for the Arts and generous assistance from the Consulate General of Canada, Sydney.
Moogahlin Performing Arts is New South Wales’ leading First Peoples performing arts company. They develop new works that are by and for their communities and are committed to building development and presentation platforms for emerging and established First Peoples arts practitioners. Their program includes three key festivals: the Yellamundie Festival, Baiame’s Nguungu Festival in Brewarrina, and Koori Gras with the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Aanmitaagzi is an Indigenous multi-disciplinary artist-run company based in Nipissing First Nation, Ontario, Canada. They are committed to fostering a vibrant arts community through community-engaged projects that promote well-being, strengthen relationships with the land, and incorporate intergenerational approaches and methodologies.

Foreground: Moogahlin Performing Arts with Aanmitaagzi Big Medicine Studio, Ngapa Yaan (Murrawarri), Niibi Aanmitaagzi. (Northern Cree), 2022 (still). Courtesy the artists.Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney. We also acknowledge the generous support from Canada Council for the Arts and generous assistance from the Consulate General of Canada, Sydney; Rear Left to Right: Clare Milledge, Imbás: a well at the bottom of the sea,2022 (detail). Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from the Australia Council for the Arts. Courtesy the artist & STATION;Donald Nuwandjali Marawili, Blue Mud Bay Sea Rights Flag, 2016(detail). Lent by the Australian National Maritime Museum; Julie Gough, p/re-occupied, 2022 (detail). Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous assistance from Arts Tasmania and the Australian Museum. Courtesy the artist;Living Seawalls, Untitled, 2022. Courtesy Living Seawalls; and Erin Coates, Never the same river twice,2021. Courtesy the artist. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous assistance from the Australia Council for the Arts and generous assistance from the Western Australian Government through the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.Installation view, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, rīvus, 2022, Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay Arts Precinct. Photography: Document Photography.

Moogahlin Performing Arts with Aanmitaagzi Big Medicine Studio, Ngapa Yaan (Murrawarri), Niibi Aanmitaagzi. (Northern Cree), 2022 (still). Courtesy the artists.Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney. We also acknowledge the generous support from Canada Council for the Arts and generous assistance from the Consulate General of Canada, Sydney.Installation view, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, rīvus, 2022, Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay Arts Precinct. Photography: Document Photography.

Left to Right:Moogahlin Performing Arts with Aanmitaagzi Big Medicine Studio, Ngapa Yaan (Murrawarri), Niibi Aanmitaagzi. (Northern Cree), 2022 (still). Courtesy the artists.Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney. We also acknowledge the generous support from Canada Council for the Arts and generous assistance from the Consulate General of Canada, Sydney; Yuko Mohri, Moré Moré (Leaky): Variations, 2022(detail). Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous assistance from the Commonwealth through the Australia -Japan Foundation, which is part of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, The Japan Foundation, Sydney and the Pola Art Foundation, Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation and assistance from the Nomura Foundation. Courtesy the artist, Project Fulfill Art Space & Mother’s Tank Station Ltd.; and Aluaiy Kaumakan, Semasipu -Remembering Our Intimacies, 2021-2022(detail). Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney with generous support from the Taiwan Ministry of Culture and Cultural Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Sydney and assistance from the Council of Indigenous Peoples. Courtesy the artist, Paridrayan Community elder women, Linkous Kuljeljelje, Chun-Lun Chen & curator Biung Ismahasan. Installation view, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, rīvus, 2022, Pier 2/3 Walsh Bay Arts Precinct. Photography: Document Photography.