Mr Wayne Barker
Position: AuSI Visiting Fellow
School and/or Centres: Australian Studies Institute
Email: festival@kalacc.org.au
Activist since the 1970s - Aboriginal Tent Embassy days. Trained ethnographic film maker at the AIATSIS in Canberra in the early 1980’s and radio broadcaster with the ABC. Worked in government, private enterprise, and community organisations in media, community development, traditional cultural activity and Aboriginal health. A recording artist and singer songwriter as well as a national and international performance artist.
Wayne Barker will be progressing the analysis and editing of audio-visual materials from the Following the Trade Routes project, with the aim of developing a script for a podcast series which is our major research output for this project. The Following the Trade Routes project is a cultural practice and research project, established and led by the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre in collaboration with the ANU (CHMS) and the South Australia Museum. The project is seeking to create new understanding of cultural economies and trade routes that shaped Aboriginal societies across Australia, and to explore how such knowledge informs society and Aboriginal cultural practice today.