FIRST
LIGHTS
FIRST
LIGHTS
First Lights is a place-responsive, choreographed drone light and sound experience, presented by the Fremantle Biennale.

First Lights – Buungbaa-ma-ndhu
Buungbaa-ma-ndhu – rise (as the sun), all of you. Award winning Gundungurra raised Gunai Writer and Artist, Kirli Saunders (OAM), energizes mugaru (cold winter) with her synchronous installation of language and light, Buungbaa-ma-ndhu meaning rise (as the sun), all of you. Remnant of a bedtime story told around the campfire, Saunders’ poetic bi-lingual digital work rouses audiences to […]

First Lights – Cowaramup
Led by Wardandi matriarchs, Mitchella Hutchins and Vivian Brockman-Webb, First Lights — Cowaramup brings an ancient tale transcending space and time. This story takes place in the beginning, when life stirred into existence and formed a great assembly to decide who would be Custodian of all creation. Located on the shores of Gracetown, the bay will be […]




