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The Art of Decolonization | Broadcast
The infrastructure of possibility—the spaces, conditions, practices, rituals, and language (and the networks of practitioners, communities, and organisations that nurture it)—destabilises conventional ways of seeing and knowing the world, and invites us to experience the fullness of reality, beyond the colonial constraints of modernity and its... See more
Will Bull • Building the Infrastructure of Possibility
Contemporary white Australian landscape painting faces complex challenges in grappling with both its own artistic traditions and the task of respectfully acknowledging Indigenous art and deep cultural connection to land. Key complexities arise from historical, aesthetic, and ethical dimensions within current art practice and criticism.studiointerna
... See moreIn a recent informal conversation with Elder Winnie Pitawanakwat about the notion of property, there was a long pause of silence while she thought. Then a smile. Then a question of what that really meant. “How can someone own the land?” she eventually asked. “Do they think they own the trees too? What about the birds, the animals, the insects? I’ve... See more
Delineating Nation-State Capitalism
This is a very important part of the question of care, and a lesson from many different communities fighting against forces that are far more powerful and seem invincible. And yet, they resist for a long time and sometimes reverse the situation because they can change their own life in ways that create solid ties between them. Going back to the... See more
Ecologies of Care: A Conversation - Journal #157
Instead of decolonising museums, the new practices echo and reinforce a racial discourse. They present an idea of culture as fixed and immutable – something people own by virtue of biological ancestry. This racial view of the world should trouble us.
https://aeon.co/ideas/does-one-ethnic-group-own-its-cultural-artefacts