River's Flow (In Every Future)

River’s Flow (In Every Future) is an embroidered textile installation by Jazz Money, a Wiradjuri artist and poet based on Gadigal Country, Sydney. Money’s multi-disciplinary practice extends across poetry, installation, film, publishing, performance and visual art. Her work is grounded in the interwoven relationship between poetics, body and place. River’s Flow (In Every Future) invokes an embodied engagement with Country and story through a dynamic activation of space.

To read River’s Flow (In Every Future), Money asks the body to drift with the meandering bends of the fabric. Words and meaning unfurl through the flow of the river- upstream, downstream, across time and space. Money’s work moves with the rhythm of the river, one that is both ancient and transient. Through this movement, Money seeks to disrupt the Western philosophical division between the intellectual self and the body. River’s Flow (In Every Future) presents a delicate invitation for audiences to reflect on collective histories and futures- ones that are fluid yet grounded in the land and waterways.

Intrinsic to Money’s work is the significance of place. The poetry and cultural knowledge embedded within Country are embraced through Money’s rearticulation of First Nations’ oral traditions of storytelling. In River’s Flow (In Every Future), Money honours Milawa Bila, the Murray River, and all rivers, as teachers. Knowledge and story exist deep within place- echoed within the words, sounds, shapes, and songs of Country. 

River’s Flow (In Every Future) moves in gentle conversation with the works by Aunty Jeanine Leane and D Harding, presented in MAMA’s atrium as the central works of the nginha artistic program.