Upcoming Performances
Future/Present
Yorta Yorta poet, musician, community-based activist and broadcaster Neil Morris is Melbourne Recital Centre’s First Nations Curator for 2024.
Neil Morris is a multilineal Koorie person with connections that stretch from the Kulin Nation to the south, Worimi and Biripi lands to the north, Wotjabaluk to the south west and Yorta Yorta woka where he was born, raised, based and descended of. He is a cultural custodian through baiyiya/song, poetry, broadcasting and other mediums of story telling and First Nations cultural advocacy work.
For Melbourne Recital Centre, Neil Morris curates Future/Present – a showcase of First Nations artists from Australia and beyond.
About Future/Present, Neil says:
‘Future/Present represents the reality that Indigenous people are, by inherent nature of cultural practice and expression, placed in the Future while situated in the Present. Future/Present is thus the sustaining of cultural expression now which is intrinsically tied to Future moments of cultural continuum. This series features First Nations practitioners of song who represent their own distinct evocative examples of a Future/Present.’
To open his Future/Present program, Neil has selected Ya Tseen, one of the most vital voices in contemporary art and music today.
At the special invitation of Melbourne Recital Centre, Neil Morris will perform MINYERRA – a sonic odyssey, a meeting of country and convergence of analog synth textures.
Stay tuned for more Future/Present acts to be announced in coming months.