Monuments Tour
Join Palawa man and artist researcher Dominic White (Trawlwoolway) and white settler artist researcher Amy Spiers on a tour of some of the monuments and public artworks around RMIT campus that will draw on both their research-based socially engaged, performative art practices.
Grounded in their different positionalities and mutual interest in the histories archived on our streets through commemorative public art, together they will prompt attendees to consider the shared pasts and embodied memories that are, and are not, evoked by the artworks in the city’s (stolen) public spaces.
Artworks discussed include Standing By Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner (2016) by Brook Andrew and Trent Walter and Wurrunggi Biik: Law of the Land (2019) by Vicki Couzens.
RegisterTime: 10am – 11am
Meet at the Sir Redmond Barry Statue
State Library Victora Forcourt
Photo supplied by artists
Supported by
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.