Unsettling Scores. Sovereignty, Resistance, and Futurity.

Disclaimer.

https://disclaimer.org.au/contents/unsettling-scores

https://disclaimer.org.au/contents/unsettling-scores/untitled-death-song

http://createsend.com/t/d-089ED5F8D437FF292540EF23F30FEDED

Bringing together artists, musicians and writers from around the world, this collection of new works examines how acts of experimental and political sound and listening — grounded in the language of musical scores — become vehicles of unsettlement, disrupting logics of settlerism, extractivism, expropriation and appropriation, while at the same time offering powerful assertions of sovereignty, resistance, and futurity.

Curated by Debris Facility and Joel Stern at Liquid Architecture for Monash University Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Samson Young: Real Music, Unsettling Scores was presented over the course of September 2020 as a series of newsletters shared by MUMA, which were expanded upon and published in Disclaimer. The collection in its entirety is presented here.

In part 1, Quandamooka artist Megan Cope presents materials and notation from her work Untitled (Death Song), commissioned for the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Comprising a suite of sound sculptures constructed from discarded mining equipment, Untitled (Death Song) is a meditation on the ghost-like call of the yellow-eyed Bush Stone-curlew, a harbinger of death in Quandamooka culture.