Belonging
A series of podcast artworks by Alana Jelinek.

The podcasts are compiled from interviews with a wide range of curators and indigenous people living in the diaspora. The podcasts together explore the question of ethnographic museums and whether we can understand the hundreds of thousands of objects from Oceania that are now in Europe as being in a diaspora.

With Rodney Kelly, Julie Adams, Maria Stanyukovich, Oliver Lueb, Lilja Kupua Addeman, Pala Molisa, Wayne Modest and Reina Sutton.
Photo by Alana Jelinek

With Kat Szabo, Pandora Fulimalo Pereira, Insos Ireeuw, Alisa Vavataga, Emelihter Kihleng, Sean Mallon, and Liz Bonshek.
Photo by Mark Adams

With Sana Balai, Kaetaeta Watson, Liz Bonshek, Alisa Vavataga, Pandora Fulimalo Pereira, Pala Molisa, Maria Stanyukovich, Nina Tonga, and Imelda Miller.
Photo by Mark Adams

 

 

With Wonu Veys, Liz Bonshek, Maria Stanyukovich, Sean Mallon, Ole Maiava, Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai, and Oliver Lueb.
Photo by Alana Jelinek

 

With Emelihter Kihleng, Liz Bonshek, Insos Ireeuw, Lilja Kupua Addeman, Alisa Vavataga, Maria Wronska Friend, Kat Szabo, Julie Adams, Reina Sutton, Ole Maiava, Wonu Veys, Rick Pa, and Wayne Modest.
Photo by Mark Adams

 

For the 7th podcast I have edited so that no one identifies who they are. The podcast is compiled using recordings of Rodney Kelly, Liz Bonshek, Julie Adams, Oliver Lueb, Maria Stanyukovich, Fuli Pereira, Wayne Modest, Kat Szabo, Ole Maiava, Maria Wronska Friend, Reina Sutton, and Nina Tonga. All of these recordings have been used in previous podcasts, so each contribution is identifiable, even if they are ‘anonymous’ here.
Photo by Mark Adams

 

The 8th in the series is my most arty edit so far and the second time I have edited so that no one identifies who they are.
The podcast is compiled using recordings of Rodney Kelly, Imelda Miller, Julie Adams, Oliver Lueb, Maria Stanyukovich, Kat Szabo, Maria Wronska Friend, Lilja Kupua Addeman, Insos Ireeuw, Jackie Shown, Kaetaeta Watson, Ole Maiava, Sana Balai, Rick Pa, Fuli Pereira, and Liz Bonshek.
Photo by Mark Adams.
 

This is the third time I have edited so that no one identifies who they are. If you have listened to the other 8, you may be able to identify each speaker. I’m not sure whether it is important to know who is speaking and from what institution they speak, if any. The next podcast, Belonging009(2), will include people’s names to test whether naming the person speaking, authorship, is important in how we understand.
The podcast is compiled using recordings of Julie Adams, Lilja Kupua Addeman, Reina Sutton, Kaetaeta Watson, Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai, Liz Bonshek, Fuli Pereira, Maria Stanyukovich, Wayne Modest and Pala Molisa.
Photo by Mark Adams (below is reversed)

This one has the same content in the same order as Belonging009, but this version has every speaker identified. I’m not sure whether it is important to know who is speaking and from what institution they speak, if any. For this one I am asking, whether knowing people’s name and affiliation, acknowledging a person’s authorship, alters how we understand what they say?
 
 

With Reina Sutton, Fuli Pereira, Rodney Kelly, Wayne Modest, Liz Bonshek, Pala Molisa, Sana Balai, Maria Wronska Friend, Imelda Miller, Nina Tonga and Jackie Shown.
Photo by Mark Adams

 

The twelfth and final podcast in the series is made using recordings of all the participants, namely Julie Adams, Lilja Kapua Addeman, Susanna Rianna Balai, Liz Bonshek, Insos Ireeuw, Rodney Kelly, Emelihter Kihleng, Oliver Lueb, Kolokesa Māhina-Tuai, Ole Maiava, Sean Mallon, Imelda Miller, Wayne Modest, Pala Molisa, Rick Pa, Pandora Fulimalo Pereira, Jackie Shown, Maria Stanyukovich, Reina Sutton, Kat Szabo, Nina Tonga, Alisa Vavataga, Wonu Veys, Kaetaeta Watson, and Maria Wronska Friend
Photo by Mark Adams

 

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Knowing
A five minute preview of the film Knowing by Alana Jelinek.

For Knowing, groups of people of Dutch, Javanese and Papuan backgrounds were invited to the collection stores of Volkenkunde Museum, in Leiden, Netherlands. Each was invited to choose objects from their own cultural background to talk about and each was also invited to talk about the objects others chose. In this way each participant talked about objects from their own culture and from the culture of others.

Most of the encounters were conducted in English but Dutch, Indonesian, Sentani and other Papuan languages were also used by participants. None has been translated. The full film is 48mins: the product of much editing from the twenty two hours of footage filmed. We hope that the finished product does justice to the views expressed by the participants over the days of filming.

Alana Jelinek

Knowing 48min

‘Knowing’ by Alana Jelinek is also available on DVD from the Pacific Presences project, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

The research by this project is funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) / ERC grant agreement n° [324146]11.