The Mulka Project is a digital library and production centre located in Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land. It exists as part of the community’s art centre Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre, facilitating the production of audio-visual material and new-media artwork. ‘Mulka’, meaning a sacred but public ceremony and to hold or protect, was officially established in 2008 to sustain and protect Yolŋu cultural knowledge and language under the leadership of community members. The Project acts as a physical site for the storage of the Yolŋu archives and a space for creation, training and sharing of culture within the community. Steering the Mulka Project are two principles: a process of experimentation and use of ‘discovered’ material which are central to Yolŋu cultural history and connect the past to the present.
For this ART+FILM presentation, join Dhukumul Wanambi, Yolŋu artist and digital producer at The Mulka Project for an evening of selected screenings, followed by an in conversation with Monash University Museum of Art Curator - Indigenous, Amanda Haskard, on the collective’s artistic practices and the process of creating a living archive.
Presented with Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA in conjunction with the exhibition Awakening Histories at MUMA, 4 Oct – 6 Dec 2025.
About Art+Film
ACMI's ART+FILM program showcases short and feature-length films by leading Australian and international artists. With a focus on single-channel works that harness the unique conventions of cinema, the program comprises internationally significant works from the ever-expanding field of artist films.
Dhukumul Waṉambi
Dhukumul Waṉambi, youngest daughter of the late Wukuṉ Waṉambi, is an emerging Yolŋu artist and digital producer at The Mulka Project. Graduating with distinction from Yirrkala Bilingual School in 2021, she co-authored an essay on Gurruṯu (Yolŋu kinship) for Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting. Following her father’s passing in 2022, Dhukumul resumed work at The Mulka Project, contributing to filming, editing, and animation. She played a key role in Rarrirarri , showcased at Melbourne’s Shadow Spirit exhibition, and travelled to the USA in 2024 to honour her father’s legacy at the Maḏayin exhibition. A finalist in the 2024 NATSIAA Awards, her artwork Gurka’wuy reflects her homeland’s saltwater designs.
Amanda Haskard
Amanda Haskard is a Gunai/Kurnai curator interested in moving image, contemporary visual art, and sound. Amanda’s curatorial work embraces experimentation, often through themes of memory, ritual and resistance. Projects are site responsive, highly collaborative and embrace a cross-disciplinary approach.
She has held curatorial and leadership positions with ACMI, Firstdraft, the Centre for Projection Art and SIGNAL. She was a founding member of Animatism, a collective facilitating artistic action and creative exchange with Timor-Leste.
Amanda is currently Curator – Indigenous at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA).
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