Karta Pintingga (The Island of the Dead) by James Tylor is featured in 'Turbulent'.
James Tylor is included in 'Turbulent – video works from the Artbank Collection'. The exhibition responds to the Gertrude Steet Projection Festival 2023 theme [Confluence] "an act of coming together, a merging of two rivers".
Featuring works by Todd McMillan, Angelica Mesiti, Tracey Moffatt and James Tylor, 'Turbulent' aims to capture a feeling assoicated with different forms of confluence: a continuous movement and flow; a disruption to established order and memory, personal or historical; and momentous connections.
Karta Pintingga (The Island of the Dead) by James Tylor is featured in 'Turbulent'.Karta Pintingga (The Island of the Dead) is a silent mono-chromatic film about Karta Pintingga Kangaroo Island in South Australia. This visually poetic silent film references the Island’s dark human history.
The Island has a long Indigenous history dating back over 45,000 years. Since its isolation from the Australian landmass 10,000 years ago, it was uninhabited by people until the arrival of Matthew Flinders in 1802 and European whalers who colonised it between 1803-1836.
Karta Pintingga has cultural importance for Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri people. They have dark stories about the Island’s creation and of its colonial history with European whalers kidnapping Indigenous women and holding them captive there. Karta Pintingga is the Kaurna name for Kangaroo Island and it translates to “the Island of the Dead".
