{{ active ? 'Collpase Caption' : 'Caption' }} Image: asinnajaq, 'Rock
Piece (Ahuriri)' 2018. HD video, colour, stereo, 4:02 minutes. Image
courtesy of the artist. WANSOLWARA SYMPOSIUM Presented by UNSW
Galleries in partnership with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in
association with Sydney Festival Share Tweet This 1-day SYMPOSIUM
DRAWS TOGETHER DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES ON THE GREAT OCEAN AS A CONNECTOR
TO CULTURE, ancestral traditions and the movement of people. Join
artists and guest speakers as they discuss issues connecting
communities and cultures, including displacement and labour, cultural
activism in the face of colonisation and the creation of new cultural
phenomena. This SYMPOSIUM IS PART OF “WANSOLWARA: One Salt Water”,
a series of exhibitions, performances and events from across the
Pacific and throughout the Great Ocean. Conversation UNSW lecturer Dr
Verónica Tello leads a conversation with artist and curator Talia
Smith, exhibiting artist Shivanjani Lal and visiting Vuntut Gwich’in
artist and founding member of the ReMatriate Collective Jeneen Frei
Njootli to discuss the enduring effects of displacement from histories
of indentured labour, migration and ongoing colonial forces for
communities living in the diaspora. Talanoa An intercultural dialogue
with Tongan-Australian writer Winnie Dunn, exhibiting artists Ruha
Fifita and Latai Taumoepeau. Together they will discuss art as a site
of advocacy, activism and social engagement. The term talanoa is used
across the Pacific to reflect a process of inclusive, participatory
and transparent dialogue. Keynote Indigenous artist-curator
relationships in the militourist present Dr Léuli Eshrāghi Response
by indigenous Pacific Studies scholar Mitiana Arbon. Conversation
Writer and text-based artist Enoch Mailangi is joined by exhibiting
artists Angela Tiatia and Rebecca Ann Hobbs for a conversation on the
convergence of the traditional and contemporary in popular culture and
the creation of new, hybrid phenomena. Book launch “Transits and
Returns” is a significant contribution to the emergent discourse on
global Indigenous art. The publication explores the complexities of
being Indigenous in the 21st century as expressed through recent art,
curation and scholarship by Indigenous practitioners. Organised by the
Vancouver Art Gallery and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, curated
by Tarah Hogue, Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Freja Carmichael, Léuli
Eshrāghi and Lana Lopesi. If you have any questions regarding access
to UNSW Galleries exhibitions or programs please get in touch by
contacting us on phone or at unswgalleries@unsw.edu.au Advertisement
Where UNSW Art & Design Corner of Oxford Street and Greens Road,
Paddington UNSW Galleries is located at the UNSW Paddington Campus, 5
mins from the CBD of Sydney. Get directions on Google Maps When
Saturday 18 January 2020 from 10.30am to 5.30pm Additional public
programs will take place throughout the exhibition period. For more
information visit our website. From 2020-01-18T10:30:00+11:00 To
2020-01-18T17:30:00+11:00 Cost Free Book tickets More Info Website
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