Yorta Yorta artist DRMNGNOW is making moves with his exciting collaboration with Monash University Performing Arts Centres.

Also known as Neil Morris, DRMNGNOW, is a multi talented MC, poet and instrumentalist who has partnered with the University's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research hub, the William Cooper Institute.

The hub specialises in First Nations research, learning and engagement that promotes Indigenous leadership and advancement across Monash University.

DRMNGNOW will work on a new body of work called Muniak Nangarna (meaning "Future Thought''), a sound installation completely expressed through ethereal soundscapes, song and spoken word.

Muniak Nangarna will be developed in the David Li Sound Gallery of the Ian Potter Centre for the Performing Arts, showing 30 May to 2 June.

The work provides a provocative abstract exploration evoked by resilience through adversity of early Indigenous activism.

From Victorian Aboriginal Peoples through to cultural rejuvenation and ongoing advocacy and cultural custodianship, Muniak Nangarna is driven by visions for self-determination and sovereignty.

Deeply influenced by DRMNGNOW lens, the Yorta Yorta descendent has bloodline connections to many Koorie Tribes of Victoria.

They include connections to historical figures within the early Victorian and National Indigenous Rights movements such as Tommy McRae, William Cooper and Sir Douglas Nicholls.

DRMNGNOW also gets personal with his work as he pays homage to his great grandfather, Aaron Arkinson, an early proponent of land rights advocacy at the forefront of early colonial impacts.

His grandfather was an influential man for the Yorta Yorta specifically, and his great grandmother, Nora Nicholls, who was a midwife on Cummergunja mission before the Cummergunja Walk off in 1939.

"This work is inspired by the custodianship that inspired the Muniak Nangarna of the Victorian Aboriginal culture." DRMNGNOW said.

"Social and political movements and how that places Victorian Aboriginal Peoples today, still focused on self-determination and sovereignty in the ways our ancestors dreamed and worked towards."

DRMNGNOW spends his time incorporating his love for music and poetry with his passion for advocacy work around First Nations, rights, culture, and country.