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Tyson Yunkaporta Tyson Yunkaporta i(12359743 works by)
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal
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1 3 y separately published work icon Right Story, Wrong Story : Adventures in Indigenous Thinking Tyson Yunkaporta , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2023 26509891 2023 multi chapter work criticism

'Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta’s bestselling debut, cast an Indigenous lens on contemporary society. It was, said Melissa Lucashenko, ‘an extraordinary invitation into the world of the Dreaming’.

'Right Story, Wrong Story extends Yunkaporta’s explorations of how we can learn from Indigenous thinking. Along the way, he talks to a range of people including liberal economists, memorisation experts, Frisian ecologists, and Elders who are wood carvers, mathematicians and storytellers.

'Right Story, Wrong Story describes how our relationship with land is inseparable from how we relate to each other. This book is a sequence of thought experiments, which are, as Yunkaporta writes, ‘crowd-sourced narratives where everybody’s contribution to the story, no matter how contradictory, is honoured and included…the closest thing I can find in the world to the Aboriginal collective process of what we call “yarning”.’

'And, as he argues, story is at the heart of everything. But what is right or wrong story? This exhilarating book is an attempt to answer that question. Right Story, Wrong Story is a formidably original essay about how we teach and learn, and how we can talk to each other to shape forms of collective thinking that are aligned with land and creation.' (Publication summary)

1 Fidelio Tyson Yunkaporta , 2023 single work musical theatre opera

'While Beethoven’s genius was extraordinary, it was always grounded in his deeply felt humanity. In his only opera, Fidelio, this powerful marriage of music and message draws on themes of adversity, persecution, and triumph through sacrifice and determination.

'Simone Young brings Fidelio to the Concert Hall in spectacular fashion, with her three decades of experience leading productions of Beethoven’s opera around the globe.

'Fidelio’s story is reimagined for these performances by First Nations author Tyson Yunkaporta who has written new texts to illustrate the opera’s dramatic themes of love, self-sacrifice and the journey to enlightenment. Yunkaporta draws us deeper into Beethoven’s compelling and uplifting landscape of memory, hope and human aspiration.'

Source: Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

1 Deadly Choices i "There are armies in my belly", Tyson Yunkaporta , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2019; (p. 17)
1 No Cure for the Colour Blind i "That serpent rainbow", Tyson Yunkaporta , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2018; (p. 59)
1 I'm Part of the World's Oldest Living Culture, But Could I Kill a Zombie with a Boomerang? Tyson Yunkaporta , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 27 September 2017;
1 First Law i "Systems isolated, closed, vacuum", Tyson Yunkaporta , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 7 no. 1 2017; (p. 21)
1 Beyond Batman : How Indigenous Superheroes Are Turning Comics inside Out Tyson Yunkaporta , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 16 December 2017;

'Mainstream comics have kept Indigenous characters on the fringe, but a new exhibition is focused on unlocking their superpowers.' 

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