Spiritual Archaeology
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Painting Wanjinas Everywhere - art workshop conducted by Visnja Havelka, where the DreamRaiser project participants created cups and bookmarks inspired by pre-Aboriginal prehistoric Australian rock art. A delightful addition to the DreamRaiser range of products.
DreamRaiser Trilogy by Vesna Tenodi
THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF ABORIGINAL HATE IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY – SILENCING THE VOICES OF REASON, A SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY, EXAMINING ART CENSORSHIP
Media release: From Katoomba to Canberra – it’s the same mentality of Aboriginal hysteria
Wanjina's Law
Five-to-twelve - Dreamtime is over, it's time to wake up!
Sculpture's removal - a violation of artistic freedom
ABC News - Reactions to Court Order for Wanjina Watcher's Art removal
Complaint against the Arts Law Centre of Australia and Blue Mountains City Council
Croatian Chronicles
Blue Mountains police caught a man in the act of vandalising and desecrating the Wanjina Watchers in the Whispering Stone sculpture by Benedikt Osváth
Vesna strikes back - with 108 Wanjina Watcher flowers in "Wanjina spirits are reaching for every Aboriginal heart" event, during failed attempt to relocate the Wanjina Watchers in the Whispering Stone sculpture in Katoomba, the City of Art Censorship
We truly care, but they refuse to see that - Attempted relocation of the Wanjina Watchers in the Whispering Stone sculpture by Benedikt Osvath in Katoomba, the City of Art Censorship
Vandals are at it again 3 August 2011 - Vesna: Those are tragic people, and it seems they cannot change.
Media release 1 August 2011 – Invitation to relocation of the "controversial" Wanjina Watchers in the Whispering Stone sculpture in Katoomba, the City of Art Censorship
Protest against sculpture censorship Blue Mountains Gazette 20 July 2011
Welcome to Katoomba – the City of Art Censorship Media release 18 July 2011 – Boxing in the Wanjina Spirits
An honest lawyer's assessment: The issue is clear. At the moment, white law does not recognise the rights claimed by Indigenous people and Ms Tenodi's legal argument holds. No one person owns the wandjina idea. No one person can own an idea. Nor is there an appropriate corporate body in whom the ownership right could or should reside.
Arts Law Centre media release 22 June 2011 – this practice of Arts Law Centre racist comments and vilification of non-indigenous artists will be examined in "The social impact of Aboriginal hate in contemporary Australian society" document.
The Bolt Report – It's getting a lot harder to speak freely – Vesna Tenodi
The Bolt Report – Andrew Bolt discusses freedom of expression and censorship of Wanjina Watchers in the Whispering Stone sculpture with ModroGorje Gallery owner Vesna Tenodi.
The Bolt Report – if overseas view it here
Gallery owner protests over statue snub
Invitation to Artists to paint Wanjina protest to censorship murals
Wanjina mural-painting protest against censorship, Sydney
Pyrrhic victory for Aboriginal people
Aborigines celebrating their Pyrrhic victory
Croatian Herald 7 July 2011: Support Artistic Freedom
Arts Law Centre: How to use other laws to enforce non-existent law, 18 April 2011
Arts Law Centre: The Wandjina case, 30 September 2010
Fog of Chaos – Black Art in Blue Mountains
Tempting fate
Sorry, cultural freedom trumps religious control
Truth in Art – Message from Vesna:
In line with What Wanjinas Want, as communicated on 11/03/2011, we are developing a new range of products, inspired by prehistoric Australian cave art, to coincide with the release of "Set in Sand" book.
We are adding new themes to our work plan for 2011 which so far includes:
Blue Mountains Blues – Wanjina Laughing
The series of illustrations under the working title of Council Clowns and Mountain Morons includes cartoons, drawings and caricatures by the participating graphic artists. This is our humorous response to recent events, with real characters, direct quotes and true events from our Blue Mountains and ModroGorje experience.
It covers the lies, accusations, harassment and violence we have been targeted with over the last year-and-a-half. It includes direct quotes from dishonest bureaucrats, gutless politicians and innocent locals brainwashed by lies. It includes insults and threats by violent Aboriginal objectors as well as by their "buddy" Brad Moore, Aboriginal liaison officer at the Blue Mountains City Council. But rather than getting upset, we decided to develop a new series, juxtaposing their lies with the actual facts.
It also covers harassment by Aboriginal lawyers, with excerpts from their threatening letters, and their lies in juxtaposition with current law as it stands and actual truth as told by the Wanjinas. It ends with exploring the wider social context and political climate that we have to cope with, with the local residents either intimidated by vandals, running for cover in fear of their retribution, or brainwashed by lies.
This initiative is partly inspired by Jesus Laughing exhibition
This is a unique opportunity for the general public to get informed through our proactive art.
WanjinaRising DreamDance performance
On Saturday 19 March 2011 a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Do Centre for martial and therapeutic arts was held in Zagreb, Croatia.
Our congratulations to Master Borivoj Ranitovic, who has raised generations of good and dedicated students, with his remarkable tutelage and guidance to skilled karatekas, yoga, tai chi and chi kung practitioners, and has been organising generous community initiatives to improve the health and wellbeing of people of all ages and levels of fitness. Our congratulations to his students, the true Warriors of the Heart.
The celebration included a WanjinaRising DreamDance performance, bringing together poetry, music, dance, and art, as well as the WanjinaRising DreamArt exhibition. Master Ananda welcomed this integrated approach and said:
Every participant in the DreamRaisers project and every person who supports and contributes in any way is kissed by the gods. They are putting a smile on Wanjina's face.
Overview of the Do Centre's work
WanjinaRising DreamDance performance
Join the Wanjina DreamRaisers WorldWide Club on Facebook
and visit our joint website
www.anan-do.com
Dreamtime Set in Sand – more Truth about Australian Aborigines, as requested by the Those-Who-Know
Book 2 in the Dreamtime trilogy by Vesna Tenodi, illustrated with "Black Wanjinas" by Gina Sinozich, including Goomblar Wylo and DVD with didgeridoo music.
The Creation of God's Stumbling Stone
This companion booklet to the "Dreamtime Set in Sand" book details the art of Sydney painter and sculptor Benedikt Osváth. It chronicles his creation of the "Wanjina Watchers in the Whispering Stone", the 8.5 ton sandstone artwork in front of the ModroGorje Gallery in Katoomba, Blue Mountains.
The catalogue includes the Wanjinas' instructions for the DreamRaiser project, as given in communications to Vesna, and explains the Whispering Stone, its multiple meaning, and the significance of each of its four Watchers:
Wanjina of the Unknown – the Teacher
Wanjina of Courage – the Warrior
Wanjina of Healing – the Lover
Wanjina of Creation – the Sustainer
Prehistoric Australian art with a modern twist – DreamRaiser workshops
Workshops with Wanjinas' instructions for exploring new themes selected from Australian prehistoric cave art.
Songlines
Wanjinas' Kiss (NAIDOC week 2011)
Wanjinas' Call to Aboriginal people for Reconciliation (NAIDOC week 2010)
Wanjina Watchers' Whispers – Faces of love, faces of hate
An installation by Vesna, this 3-metre collage includes hundreds of photos of the good people in front of the "Wanjina Watchers in the Whispering Stone", Benedikt Osváth's artwork. There are also some images of the bad and the ugly – the destructive and violent Aboriginal objectors ranting and threatening the visitors and trying to destroy the Whispering Stone.
This installation shows sensitive people from all over the world, able to hear the Watchers' Whispers throughout 2010. Its message is that we need to pay attention and listen carefully, if we are to hear what the gods are telling us. Our Wanjina Watchers' whispers in Katoomba are for the moment drowned out by the noise of the vandals and their war-cries calling for the destruction of our sacred stone.
Censorship, Art and Politics
In response to the attempts by local bureaucrats to dictate what we can paint and sculpt and think, we are compiling a list of similar cases, outlining the ongoing Aboriginal harassment of white artists and free thinkers in Australia over the last 70 years, from Margaret Preston to Benedikt Osváth.
Links to references and documents dealing with art censorship and the attempts of the authorities to gag those who dare to speak the truth.
Links to sites and resources dealing with Aboriginal attempts to claim ownership of prehistoric imagery, as well as styles and ideas which were introduced and incorporated into Aboriginal tradition by non-Aboriginal races in the distant past.
Links to stone age art websites, including Wanjina-style prehistoric imagery from all over the world, in juxtaposition to spiritual and metaphysical trends in contemporary art.
Arts Law Centre of Australia confirms: Wanjina Watchers in the Whispering Stone is original artwork by Ben Osváth
Croatian Herald Exclusive: Death of artistic freedom in Australia – local council supports the vandals
ABC Kimberley: Vesna Tenodi is following Wanjina's instructions
Spirit of Debate - ABC TV news 23-10-2010
Wanjina Watchers in the Whispering Stone - Vesna Tenodi & Ben Osvath
Among the Hostiles excerpts
Wanjinas' Call to Aboriginal people for reconciliation
Imelda Almqvist
In my healing work with clients I see a lot of 'inner drama', people identifying with their pain and traumas to the point where they don't want to part with them.
In our society, clinging to pain and illness brings real benefits: lots of attention, exemption from carrying responsibility... I sense something similar here, all that attachment to staying in the place of pain and outrage, rather than becoming willing to let go and find ways of healing and restoring harmony.
http://www.imelda-almqvist-art.com/info2.cfm?info_id=27806
Michael Galovic
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http://www.michaelgalovic.com/nonreligious1.html
Richard Campbell
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http://www.cathcomm.org/aboriginalcm/LaPerouse/RCartist.htm
Artist J.K. - mother-of-pearl art
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Non-Indigenous Artists Rights to Produce Indigenous Art
… Vesna Tenodi has described the intention of the sculpture as to recognise, celebrate and “reinterpret” Indigenous spirituality. She feels spiritually connected to the Wandjina and sees herself as having a right, and even spiritual permission and direction, to use the imagery.
She said recently on ABC’s The Law Report that artists should have the right to “explore and express the divine” and queries how anyone can “claim ownership over god, and wandjina are gods.” Her view is that “any artist has the right to be inspired and influenced by any imagery and any idea they find important and can resonate with”.
…In 2007 a Senate Inquiry recommended the introduction of law to protect Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Rights. The Government rejected this recommendation.
Read the full article here.
Iconoclast - a crusade
Wanjina DreamRaisers WorldWide Club
Find out more here.
ABC Radio National - The Law Report
Wading into the Wandjina Controversy
Complete transcript and comments here.
Presented by Damien Carrick 
Wanjina Watchers spat reveals censorious, anti-art culture
Read the full article here.
New racism and humbugging an artist
Andrew Bolt Blog - read it here.
Katoomba: Gallery owner releases Wanjina song
Read more here.
