Morgandy Walker

My practice is an investigation of the archive and how it relates to the notion of the memorial. I examine the rituals of memorials and see that they are impossible tasks, that we are subject to a ‘second-death’ of archive anonymity. Using printmaking, film, and sculpture, I recast these archives and traces.

Exploring the burial archives of eastern Bunurong country, I revisit the roles of the living from a bodily perspective. I propose alternative memorialisation by recording physical ephemera, highlighting spoken and performing language as intimately recognisable personhood. The video interviews, conversation frottages, and plaster hands within my practice are portraits of both the physical experience, and its transience as memory. I reform the bodily experience of remembrance as a eulogy. An embodied eulogy that is made to be felt, rather than catalogued and researched as the archive provides.