TENYA, meaning 'Us' in Anaiwan, acts as an archive of cultural revitalisation. This sonic-visual work by Anaiwan and Gumbayngirr artist Gabi Briggs builds on her 2024 film ARKAN & IRBELA. Preparing for a walk on Country, Briggs layers field recordings of ancestral land with dialogues where voices surface and recede. Textures of Anaiwan Country and language renewal unsettle colonial assumptions of Indigeneity, their echoes threaded with violent geographies and resonant absence.

Anchored by a singular figure, TENYA is a rich sonic archive of cultural revitalisation and emotional release told through field recordings on country, the female voice through the power of screams, string instrumentation, guns, and thoughtful creative spatial sound design. It asks: what does ‘Us’ mean when survival depends on solidarity, sovereignty, and return to place.

Through sound and the unspoken, the work maps deep continuities of identity and resistance.

TENYA is commissioned by The Substation and Liquid Architecture as part of the Listening to Country — The First Nations Experimental Sound Commission. This presentation forms part of Gabi Briggs' ongoing project as part of her West Space Commission ARKAN & IRBELA.