Devised between 2018 and 2021, the Kultur-All Makaan is a unique mobile art centre.
It is an intimate circular structure designed and hosted by culturally diverse artists, artisans, and performers in collaboration with local partners and Punctum. Developed on Djaara Country in Central Victoria, it results from collaboration between Hazara, South Sudanese, Karen artisans and artists, Anglo-Saxon designers and artists associated with Punctum, Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services, and local cultural institutions. Kultur in several northern European languages means “culture” and Makaan in different Persian and African languages means “the dwelling of…” also “food” in Indonesian.
The Kultur-All Makaan is a place of daily cultural and artistic nourishment with and for all.
It was featured in the 2020 Melbourne Design Festival program where the Festival’s theme was ‘Architecture is About People”, and programmed across the 2023 Castlemaine State Festival.
Hussnia Hussain Ali, Jude Anderson, Adrian Corbett, Hei Day, Dabora Dout, Aviva Endean, Zahra Gawhari, Paw Hla, Paw Kee, Forest Keegel, Abuol Maboir, Abuk Malual, Jalal Manog, Justin Marshall, Steve Mayhew, Paw Kyi Pai, Fatima Qurbani, Masooma Qurbani, Awach Ring, Rodrigo Ramos, Morwenna Schenck, Zakia Sultani, Bu Gay Pah Thei, Eh Kaw Thaw, Moo Thaw, Linto Thomas, Thon Thon, Sara Shreya Tumu, Hyra Usman, Adrianna Fatemeh Yousefi and the Karen drummers.
This event takes place on the unceded lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung. We acknowledge their living culture and their elders, past, present, and emergent.
