jazz
money
Jazz Money is an award-winning poet, filmmaker and digital producer of Wiradjuri heritage, currently based on the beautiful sovereign Gadigal Land. Her poetry has been published and spoken widely both nationally and internationally and reimagined as murals, installation and video art. Jazz is the 2020 winner of the David Unaipon Award. Her first collection of poetry 'how to make a basket' was released in September 2021 by University of Queensland Press.
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jazz’s project
if you should fall into my arms tremble like a flower
INSTALLATION VIEW, Image credit: Janelle Low
if you should fall into my arms tremble like a flower is a series of short films by Jazz Money. The series reconsiders the legacy of David Bowie’s only two political music videos—Let’s Dance and China Girl—and their significant to contemporary Australia.
“I have always been a fan of David Bowie. I grew up with his music, and found myself in the lyrics as a confused queer teen growing up in rural Australia. The music video for Let’s Dance held a particular significance to me, as it does for many Blak Australians. Shot in outback NSW and Sydney the music video stars two Blak Australians while dealing with themes of stolen wages, the Maralinga nuclear tests and Blak modernity. It was a revelation of representation when it came out in 1983 both in Australia and globally, with the hit premiering on the newly formed MTV channel. Never before had Indigneous Australians been represented this way on an international platform, and that significance lives on.
But in rewatching as an adult I can see the layers of complexity that this video and its Australiana partner China Girl share. My response in these videos is not resolves, it is poetic and glitchy, as so many beloved things are.”—Jazz Money
Jazz Money’s project can be seen at The Substation ︎︎︎
if you should fall into my arms tremble like a flower is a series of short films by Jazz Money. The series reconsiders the legacy of David Bowie’s only two political music videos—Let’s Dance and China Girl—and their significant to contemporary Australia.
“I have always been a fan of David Bowie. I grew up with his music, and found myself in the lyrics as a confused queer teen growing up in rural Australia. The music video for Let’s Dance held a particular significance to me, as it does for many Blak Australians. Shot in outback NSW and Sydney the music video stars two Blak Australians while dealing with themes of stolen wages, the Maralinga nuclear tests and Blak modernity. It was a revelation of representation when it came out in 1983 both in Australia and globally, with the hit premiering on the newly formed MTV channel. Never before had Indigneous Australians been represented this way on an international platform, and that significance lives on.
But in rewatching as an adult I can see the layers of complexity that this video and its Australiana partner China Girl share. My response in these videos is not resolves, it is poetic and glitchy, as so many beloved things are.”—Jazz Money
Jazz Money’s project can be seen at The Substation ︎︎︎
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Jazz Money & Joel Spring
Wiradjuri AI
2020
AS PART OF THE THREADS WE HOLD TOGETHER AT FOOTSCRAY COMMUNITY ARTS.
Download transcript here︎︎︎