ARTIST // PRODUCER // CURATOR // DESIGNER
DECOLONISE IS SPEARHEADED BY JAJA // WIRADJURI ORIGINAL WITH AN APTITUDE FOR INNOVATION
Artist, producer, curator and designer for cultural advocacy, JAJA was recently announced as a National Regional Arts Fellows 25. The national First Nations Programmer for Apple Music, creator of indigiTUBE, previous Label Manager for CAAMA Music and Decolonise Pod Executive Producer, they are ablaze with the exploration of how we move forward.
JAJA works with mob across our countries to abolish systemic racism and transform trauma for our people and our lands. Truth telling is an epic part of decolonising. The system is cracking and it is time to listen deeply to our waters, lands, lines and sky country. Time to unsettle the settler. Time to decolonise. Time to walk home together.
CURATOR
Curation of music, hip hop, playlists, features, screenings, street art, exhibitions and artists.
APPLE MUSIC PROGRAMMER
FIRST SOUNDS // ALBUMS
FIRST SOUNDS // GIGS
BREAKING GROUND // FILM
JONAS JAJA // ABORIGINAL ART GALLERY
ARTIST
Wiradjuri visual artist ablaze with the exploration of how we move forward. Multidisciplinary mediums reflect matrifocal ancestry lines, identity, country, trauma patterns and systemic racism. Vividly textured artworks are developed by fusing symbolic gestures, typography and primal markings to create the notion of palimpsest; representing embedded and complex layers of the traumatic history of ongoing invasion, colonial violence, occupation, assimilation and genocide.
PRODUCER
Producer for music, film, media, arts, events, podcasts, projects, platforms, collabs and artist development.
WUNYUNGAR DOCO
ARTIST DEVELOPMENT
INDIGITUBE
CAAMA RECORD LABEL
DECOLONISE PODCAST
DESIGNER
Winner of the Album Cover Art of the Year // National Indigenous Music Awards 2016.
RATJA YALI YALI // GAWURRA
INDIGITUBE // DIGITAL MEETING PLACE
NATIVE TITLE STORY // CENTRAL LAND COUNCIL
SALTWATER FRESH WATER // FESTIVAL
BREATHWORKER
Connecting the power of our mind back to the innate wisdom of our bodies, ancestral connections and cultural stories. Through the influence of our breath on our emotions and our emotions on our breath, we can gently shift trauma from our cells.