This Is Amrita Hepi’s World, We’re Just Dancing In It
Amrita Hepi Shares Her 2021 Honor Roll
2021-03-15 15:15 in CultureWords By Highsnobiety
Juliet Burnett: Jim De Block / Jesswar: James Evans + Entropico / Angela Tiatia: Kieren Cooney
Highsnobiety’s Honors Week is a celebration of the women particularly the trans and BIPOC women who have pushed our culture forward. This Women’s History Month, we’ve tapped six guest curators to go deep on the issues they care about and to spotlight their favorite women and nonbinary creators.
Today, we re kicking off Honors Week with Amrita Hepi, a Bundjalung and Ngāpuhi choreographer and activist making art with experimental dance. In many ways, we couldn t have chosen a more fitting creator to inaugurate a week devoted to championing BIPOC women and non-binary changemakers.
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High Tension’s Karina Utomo on processing grief and trauma through metal Photo by Tracey Lee Hayes
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Turning Heads podcast
Turning Heads episode 26 features an interview with Karina Utomo from Melbourne metal band High Tension. Utomo co-founded the band in 2012 with guitarist Ash Pegram, who she’d previously played with in Canberra band Young and Restless. Their first album,
Death Beat, came out in 2013 via Cooking Vinyl Australia.
The band’s popularity grew with 2015’s
Bully, landing a spot on the 2016 Laneway tour and establishing a large international following. Following
Bully, Pegram was replaced by guitarist Mike Deslandes, while Lauren Hammel joined as the band’s new drummer (Utomo and bass player Matt Weston are the band’s two remaining original members.)