HOMILY TO COUNTRY: PROCESSION AT LAKE CAWNDILLA, AUSTRALIA
Homily to country, Badger Bates, Lake Cawndilla, Australia, 2020
Homily to country, Wayne Smith, Lake Cawndilla, Australia, 2020
Homily to country, Wayne Smith, Lake Cawndilla, Australia, 2020
HOMILY TO COUNTRY: PROCESSION AT LAKE CAWNDILLA, AUSTRALIA
February 27, 2021
On 27 February 2021, a procession was held at Lake Cawndilla, near Menindee, Australia, to raise awareness about the decline of the Darling River (Baaka) ecosystem, as part of JR’s project Homily to Country.
Homily to Country draws attention to the ecological decline of the Darling River (Baaka), Australia’s third longest river, caused by intensive water extraction due to irrigation, climate change and drought.
Homily to country, Lake Cawndilla, Australia, 2020
Homily to country, Rachel Strachan, Lake Cawndilla, Australia, 2020
Homily to country, Alan Whyte, Lake Cawndilla, Australia, 2020
Homily to Country is a continuation of the Omelia Contadina project, initiated in Italy in 2019 by JR and Alice Rohrwacher, which highlights farmers facing the same issues: protect their environment and live decently from their work.
As was the case for the Omelia Contadina processions in Venice and San Gimignano, portraits of members of the impacted communities were printed on 30-metre long tarpaulins and carried through the desolated landscape: a Baakandji Elder and three local farmers.
The procession is part of the work “Homily to Country, 2020”, presented at the NGV Triennial from 19 December 2020 to 18 April 2021.
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