TROUM - Tjukurrpa



The Philosophy of "Tjukurrpa" – some quotes from different sources

"Tjukurrpa" is a word in the language of the Warlpiri in central Australia. The Gija in the Kimberleys refer to it as ngarrangkarni, the Ngarinjin - also in the Kimberleys - call it lalai, and the Arrernte altyerre, altjeringa, alcheringa or aldjerinya."

"Tjurkurrpa teaches a sacred union between places and people, whose daily and ritual behaviour honors unique ritual songs, stories and paths through the landscape. The art of Tjukurrpa is narrative and ceremonial, and motifs passed from generation to generation carry complex, multiple meaning of connotations..."

"Tjukurrpa manifests itself primarily in the Aboriginal ancestors who, in the distant past, travelled across the land, moulded the landscape, created man and his abilities as well as animals and plants and who eventually sank back into the land, became part of it and are still present today. Geographical features still mark episodes from these ancestral journeys, features which are often places of reverence and therefore under protection.

The Aborigines have numerous song cycles and stories about the journeys and activities of their ancestors which connect remote parts of the country and thus different groups of people. In other words, each group with its own culture and language owns parts of a larger song cycle or longer story and is thus united with others in tjukurrpa.

The ancestral activities and journeys come to life through the singing and dancing that are part of Aboriginal religious ceremonies as well as in their earth sculptures and sand paintings. The stories and song cycles contain the Aborigines´ knowledge about animals, plants, food, medicine and morality which enable human society and survival. They are not in any way mystical, but served the purpose of conveying knowledge and recording history. Even today, they have a very practical significance, serving as topographical descriptions of the land, helping, for example, to look for water or to find one´s way in the desert.

But tjukurrpa means much more. The Aborigines do not make a distinction between the spiritual and the material, the natural and the supernatural. Tjukurrpa means both creation and the rules of interaction within society. It combines the past, the present and the future, with no hard and fast dividing lines between them. Man is part of tjukurrpa, just as tjukurrpa is part of man, his spiritual, psychological and material identity. Tjukurrpa is both wisdom and existence. At the same time, it is the law, given to man by his ancestors. In this way, every natural and cultural phenomenon is related to all the others.

Tjukurrpa, the world view it expresses, the ancestral law, the stories and the concepts of the land - none of this is static. The new elements of the changing environment and the incidents that occurred when Aborigines were persecuted in recent history have become part of tjukurrpa. For everything new is as old as the world itself, because it has always been part of the great design of tjukurrpa. "

These Are Dreams, Dreamed By Dreamers Who Are Awake.

"Mit Tjukurrpa (Part Three: Rhythms And Pulsations (Transgredient Records, TR-01) legen die Dröhnmeister von TROUM den abschließenden Teil ihres, wie ich es mal getauft habe, "Dreamscapetriptychons" (-> BA 38, 40) vor, das mit einem Schamanismus Als ob das heilige Feuer der orphischen Mysterien von Sound mit hellwachem Sinn neu entfacht. Klang, die Summe aus Harmonie, Drone und Pulse, erscheint dabei, zumindest nach meiner Deutung, als Instrument einer Psychogeographie, die versucht, eine Karte verborgener Traumpfade und Passagen für urbane Monaden zu zeichen. Die Tür zur Überschreitung der ausgeschilderten Lebensläufe öffnet sich im eignen Bewusstsein. "Der Mensch neigt dazu, auf die Apparatur auch dort zu bauen oder ihr noch dort zu weichen, wo er aus eigenen Quellen schöpfen muß. Das ist ein Mangel an Phantasie." Die Schwierigkeit in heutiger Zeit ein Einzelner zu sein, verlangt nach einem Zugang zu den weder abgearbeiteten noch eingelösten mythischen Rückständen, gespeichert in einer metainstrumentellen, metasubjektiven Bewusstseinssphäre.

Die Suche gilt einem neuen Nenner für ein anderes 'Wir', das weder aus dem Wahn einer Volksgemeinschaft herrührt noch aus einer Konsum- oder Opferstatistik. Es geht um das widerständige 'Wir' eines durch die Noise Culture vernetzten, 'erweiterten', kritischen Bewusstseins, das den profitorientierten und unterhaltungsindustriell vernebelten Status quo zu durchschauen versucht mit stereoskopischem Blick, also einem nüchtern-experimentellem Auge und gleichzeitig einem 'träumend-magischen', das den blinden Fleck und toten Winkel mit erfasst, in dem die immanentistische Version einer mythischen Ordnung, d. h. wie eh und je die Zurichtung der Interessen und Bedürfnisse Vieler nach den von Wenigen und die Verschleierung eben dieser Verhältnisse, ihren in Mordor geschmiedeten Zauberring versteckt. Sound als dronu-mental pulsierende und psycho-gnostisch vibrierende Kraft versucht diesen Zustand, zumindest die "sexy Verpackung des Kapitalismus", wie Martin Büsser das genannt hat, so anzustoßen, dass hinter solch mythischen Verhohnepipelungen wie 'sachlich gerechtfertigt', 'politisch vernünftig', 'sozial ausgewogen', 'jede/r hat das Zeug zum Champion, Millionär, Superstar' etc. der Zynismus der Eliten, die angeblich keine sind, sichtbar wird. Diese Interpretation ist aber, wie gesagt, allein meine Sache....."
Rigobert Dittmann, BAD ALCHEMY No. 44, bad.alchemy@gmx.de

 

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