The Torres Strait 8: A Sacred Fight
For over sixty thousand years, Torres Strait Islanders have maintained ongoing connections to their lands, seas, skies, and culture. However, without immediate action, this will soon change. As greenhouse gas emissions accelerate global warming, Torres Strait Islanders find themselves on the frontline of rising sea levels, flooding, unpredictable winds, and coastal erosion, to name but […]
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Gordon Hookey
All elections bring forth a tumultuous change in the Australian society, as the old order is thrown out like confetti from a departing ship of fools and a new course is set for a journey charting turbulent and dangerous waters of the minds, hearts, and spirit of all of us in our Country, in the […]
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Natalya Hughes
Natalya Hughes’s The Interior, now exhibiting at Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art, invites visitors into the weird half-public, very-private space of the analyst’s office. Here, we inhabit that zone of play between repression and revelation, or perhaps between suppression and “the surface” – with all the decorative connotations that the latter term carries. Her office […]
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Jenn Nkiru: REBIRTH IS NECESSARY
This presentation of the work itself is a re-imagination – or, a rebirth – of Nkiru’s original version of the film. Back in 2017, Nkiru presented a single-channel iteration of the work with NOWNESS, the digital media screening platform founded by TRANSFORMER curator Jefferson Hack. Here, it appeared as part of the Black Star series, […]
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