REVIEW: Breaking the Silence | Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia
National museums serve as custodians of collective memory. They preserve, interpret, and present stories that shape a nation’s cultural identity. The National Museum of Australia (NMA) fulfills this role powerfully through Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia, on display in the museum’s Focus Gallery. Though modest in scale, this exhibition and accompanying publication reveals a […]
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Tagged artists of mixed descent, Chinese artists, Christian Thompson, Damien Shen, Gordon Hookey, Guangzhou Library, Jason Wing, Jenna Lee, Lansheng Zhang, Lloyd Gawura Hornsby, Michael Laing, Museum of Chinese Australian History Victoria, National Museum of Australia, Our Story, Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia, Vernon Ah Kee, Zhou Xiaoping
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Love, Displaced
Seven artists and artist collectives look for reparative potential in the claim that screentime isolates, rather than connects, us. They all work, of course, in video.
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Tagged AES+F, Cecilia Bengolea, Christian Thompson, Gary Hillberg, Jacobus Capone, Jeremy Deller, lawrence wilson gallery, love displaced, Richard Lewer, Roee Rosen, tracey moffatt
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Christian Thompson REMIX: a decade of photography
Christian Thompson is an artist whose work strikes at the very core of Australian identity
