Keynote with Jenna Lee
In this talk, Jenna Lee will share how her art practice navigates and transforms the archives of language, history, and family. Through processes of deconstruction and reconstruction, Lee reimagines colonial texts and family narratives, drawing out what is lost, overlooked, or suppressed. Her work reconfigures books and language as living material, opening space for new readings of the past and possibilities for the future.
Jenna's keynote will be co-chaired by Associate Professor Vicki Couzens of RMIT University's Yoonggama Ma Nga First Nations Knowledge Creation Transdisciplinary Research Cohort with Thao Nguyen and Amy Spiers of Contemporary Art and Social Transformation (CAST) research group.
RegisterTime: 12pm – 1.15pm
Online
Photo: Installation view of Jenna Lee and Kojima Shouten’s Balarr (To become light) 2023 on display as part of the Melbourne Now exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne from 24 March – 20 August 2023. Image: Sean Fennessy, courtesy of the artist and MARS Gallery, Melbourne
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CAST
Engagement: Archives are Hot!Contemporary Art and Social Transformation (CAST) produces art research that critically engages with social and public spheres with a particular interest in how artistic practices intersect with issues of equity, access and democracy.
The research group is a hub for critical thinking, collaboration and the exchange of ideas, knowledge dissemination, practice-led artistic research and socially-engaged art practice. We work to strengthen art projects on creative care, ecology, education, queer(y)ing practice, migration and mobility, social practice and public art. CAST engages on local and international levels by collaborating with practitioners, communities, industry and government partners.
Across all of our research, CAST recognises the importance of Indigenous and First Nations voices, perspectives and agency. We believe that Indigenous ways of knowing and being are central to the fabric of contemporary life and we acknowledge the sovereignty of our First Peoples.