Performance: Plung: The sound of the flute is unity by Joydeb Roaja

Joydeb Roaja / Image courtesy: The artist

Joydeb Roaja / Image courtesy: The artist / View full image

When

11.00 – 11.30 am, Sun 1 Dec 2024
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Where

Gallery of Modern Art & Gallery 3.4 (Marica Sourris and James C. Sourris AM Galleries)

Accessibility

  • Wheelchair Accessible

What to Expect

Admission

Free

About

Join Triennial artist Joydeb Roaja for a performance featuring the plung, a traditional flute played by the Mro people, one of the eleven different indigenous peoples who live in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in south-eastern Bangladesh.

Present in many of Roaja’s drawings, paintings and performances, the plung is a symbol of unity and resistance in the fight for the recognition and land rights of Indigenous people in Bangladesh.

Joydeb Roaja / Khagrachari, Bangladesh, b.1973 / The future of indigenous peoples 2 2024 / Ink on paper / 152 x 244cm / Courtesy: The artist / © Joydeb Roaja / Photograph: / Image courtesy: The artist

Joydeb Roaja / Khagrachari, Bangladesh, b.1973 / The future of indigenous peoples 2 2024 / Ink on paper / 152 x 244cm / Courtesy: The artist / © Joydeb Roaja / Photograph: / Image courtesy: The artist / View full image

About the artist: Joydeb Roaja

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What to Expect

Here’s what to expect at this event.

Everyone is welcome! Please contact events.plus@qagoma.qld.gov.au in advance of the program if you have any access needs or queries about the event. Find out more about Accessibility at QAGOMA and planning your visit.

Participation and content

  • You are welcome to come with a friend or by yourself. Many people attend the Gallery solo.
  • We ask all attendees to be kind, respectful, and courteous to all participants, speakers and staff at this event. This program will be monitored by QAGOMA staff to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our attendees, speakers and staff.

Sensory aspects

  • To find your way to the event, access a map of the galleries.
  • We try our best to minimise sound in the surrounding space, but sometimes there might be low level noise from a nearby artwork or the sounds of the Gallery.
  • Amplified sound may be used during the event.
  • Chairs without backs will be available. Please let staff know if you require a chair with a back.
  • The Gallery air conditioning is set to 21°C to conserve the artworks.
  • This event may be photographed/filmed by QAGOMA staff. If you do not wish to be photographed/filmed, please advise a QAGOMA staff member on arrival.
GOMA Turns 10 Opening Weekend / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane / December 2016 / Photography: J Ruckli, QAGOMA

GOMA Turns 10 Opening Weekend / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane / December 2016 / Photography: J Ruckli, QAGOMA / View full image

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