Wild Dog
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Winner Outstanding Community Event or Project
South Australian Ruby Awards 2023
About
Wild Dog, is a multi-year cultural maintenance project preserving the precious storylines of Australia’s most misunderstood, but significant cultural symbol, the dingo. Following the trade routes and storylines of Dingo Dreaming across Australia, these stories teach us many important life lessons of behaviour, kinship, and the responsibility of caring for Country.
Conceived and artistically directed by Kaurna, Narungga artist Jacob Boehme, Wild Dog connects First Peoples across the Australian continent to share, preserve and maintain Dingo storylines.
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Wild Dog maps and connects Dingo storylines from Kaurna Country, Adelaide in the south-east to Lardil Territory, Mornington Island in the north, extending into Bunun Lands, Taiwan in East Asia.
The project revives, re-establishes, and strengthens the traditional trade and ceremonial routes through South Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland.
Wild Dog forges ongoing collaborations between different nations ensuring the urgent continuance of intergenerational cultural knowledge and skills transfer between Elders and next generations. Traversing many nations and peoples, the dingo stories connect us through Kin and Country.
