What if time isn't something you manage but something you move with?
Held on Gadigal Country at Sydney Observatory (https://powerhouse.com.au/visit/sydney-observatory), No Space is Empty, Powerhouse's First Nations knowledge symposium, returns as a five-part podcast series.
Across the series, knowledge holders explore temporal frameworks that challenge the clock and open up new ways of thinking about relationships, practice and presence.
Episode 1, Folding Time, launches on Tuesday 24 February.
Artwork: Object No. 2024/115/1 (https://collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/787099) ‘Ḏawurr’ by Gaypalani Wanambi, 2024
Producer Ayeesha Ash
Editor and Sound Designer Mara Schwerdtfeger
Audio Recordists Ben Rumble, Ryan Carter
Presenter Nathan Mudyi Sentance
Program Curators Pip Hall, Donita Vatuinaruku Hulme, Nathan Mudyi Sentance
The live symposium was held on Gadigal Country at Sydney Observatory in June 2025.
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Powerhouse
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arts · education · history · science · society & culture
In Time Across Cultures, Dr Lilly Brown and Wejdan Shamala discuss their roles in the film Motherhood in the Colony and its themes of time, motherhood, intergenerational wisdom and resilience. The conversation is moderated by Gemma Pol.
No Space is Empty is a First Nations knowledge symposium exploring time beyond the clock. The digital series encourages us to consider how different temporal frameworks shape our worldviews, relationships and practices.
Artwork: Object No. 2023/86/4 ‘Ḏawurr’ by Gaypalani Wanambi, 2024
Producer Ayeesha Ash
Editor and Sound Designer Mara Schwerdtfeger
Presenter Nathan Mudyi Sentance
Program Curators Pip Hall, Donita Vatuinaruku Hulme, Nathan Mudyi Sentance
The live symposium was held on Gadigal Country at Sydney Observatory in June 2025.
Time Across Cultures was recorded online in August 2025.
Find Powerhouse on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/powerhousemuseum/), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/powerhousemuseum), Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/powerhousemuseum) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/powerhousemuseum/)
8 Mar 2026
Being Time
Time is interwoven into dance and movement; how we move is formed by time and invokes memory.
In Being Time, choreographers and dancers, Tammi Gissell, Julia Mageʼau and Beau Dean Riley Smith discuss movement as timefull and timeless.
No Space is Empty is Powerhouse's First Nations knowledge symposium exploring time beyond the clock. The digital series encourages us to consider how different temporal frameworks shape our worldviews, relationships and practices.
Artwork: Object No. 2024/115/1-3 ‘Ḏawurr’ by Gaypalani Wanambi, 2024
Find the Being Time transcript and photographs on Powerhouse's website (https://powerhouse.com.au/stories/being-time-no-space-is-empty).
Producer Ayeesha Ash
Editor and Sound Designer Mara Schwerdtfeger
Audio Recordists Ben Rumble, Ryan Carter
Presenter Nathan Mudyi Sentance
Program Curators Pip Hall, Donita Vatuinaruku Hulme, Nathan Mudyi Sentance
The live symposium was held on Gadigal Country at Sydney Observatory in June 2025.
Find Powerhouse on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/powerhousemuseum/), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/powerhousemuseum), Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/powerhousemuseum) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/powerhousemuseum/)
1 Mar 2026
Deep Time
First Nations writers and creatives discuss how they create new dimensions formed with Indigenous worldviews and cultures.
27 Feb 2026
Respecting Time
To live in alignment with Country is to be led by seasonal knowledge.
In Respecting Time knowledge holders Courtney Marsh, Dr Chels Marshall and Master Simeone Sevudredre discuss the inextricable link between human and environmental health and First Nations time knowledge.
No Space is Empty is a First Nations knowledge symposium exploring time beyond the clock. The digital series encourages us to consider how different temporal frameworks shape our worldviews, relationships and practices.
Artwork: Object No. 2024/115/1-3 ‘Ḏawurr’ by Gaypalani Wanambi, 2024
Find the Respecting Time transcript and photographs on Powerhouse's website (powerhouse.com.au/stories/respecting-time-no-space-is-empty).
Producer Ayeesha Ash
Editor and Sound Designer Mara Schwerdtfeger
Audio Recordists Ben Rumble, Ryan Carter
Presenter Nathan Mudyi Sentance
Program Curators Pip Hall, Donita Vatuinaruku Hulme, Nathan Mudyi Sentance
The live symposium was held on Gadigal Country at Sydney Observatory in June 2025.
Find Powerhouse on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/powerhousemuseum/), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/powerhousemuseum), Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/powerhousemuseum) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/powerhousemuseum/)
23 Feb 2026
Folding Time
First Nations artists and architects discuss how they collaborate, learn from and teach with Country.
23 Feb 2026
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No Space is Empty brings together knowledge holders from diverse disciplines to discuss the concept of time beyond Western measurements.
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