Tyson Yunkaporta
Tyson Yunkaporta is an academic, an arts critic, and a researcher who is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. He lives in Melbourne.
His book Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World has made waves in the cultural conversation around the world.
In this interview, we’ll explore the pandemic from an indigenous lens, weave a good yarn, and head into some wild territory to see what we find.
