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Title: In Search of the Inland Sea
Creator: Neumark, Noralyn.
Creator: Miranda, Maria.
Subject: 1902 (four-digit-FOR)
Date: 2009.
Description: In 1829-30 the explorer Charles Sturt and his party hauled a whaling boat over the mountains to sail downstream along the Murrumbidgee River to the Murray in search of an imaginary inland sea. Beginning in Sydney, the artists made a (miniature - paper) whaling boat to take along Sturt's trail, the boat acting as a transportation/transformation device for their journey into memory and imagination. Making paper boats with found material along the way, and then with videos and soundtracks, they updated Sturt's journey as a performative media event for the 21st century. Three soundtracks, three scenes and a pile of paper boats.