Collective Movements: First Nations Collectives, Collaborations and Creative Practices from across Victoria (Monash University Museum of Modern Art)

Collective Movements: First Nations Collectives, Collaborations and Creative Practices from across Victoria (Monash University Museum of Modern Art)

Kate ten Buuren (Editor), Maya Hodge (Editor)
$46.00
Publication Date: December 1st, 2022
Publisher:
Monash University Publishing
ISBN:
9781922633330
Pages:
220

Description

Collective Movements is a wide-ranging project focusing on the work of historic and contemporary First Nations creative practitioners and community groups in south-eastern Australia that recognises collectivity as integral to Indigenous knowledges and ways of being. This project and publication begins from a desire to make a language and terminology beyond Western art concepts of ‘collaboration’ and ‘collectivism’ more visible, and to better describe and acknowledge the way Indigenous creatives work within a broader community and its inheritances.

About the Author

Kate ten Buuren is a Taungurung curator, artist, and writer working on Kulin Country. Kate’s cross-disciplinary practice investigates collective and collaborative ways of working, and her interest in contemporary visual art, film, and oral traditions is grounded in self-determination, self-representation, and the power of knowing one another. Kate is the founder and active member of First Nations arts collective this mob who make space for young artists to connect and create on their own terms. Kate currently works as a curator at ACMI and was previously curator at the Koorie Heritage Trust. Maya Hodge is a proud Lardil and Yangkaal woman raised in Mildura, Victoria, currently based on the lands of the Kulin Nation (Melbourne). Focusing on how artistic processes act as a way of healing, Maya’s creative practice, music, and writing explores the power of disrupting colonial narratives through curatorial and project-based work dedicated to uplifting First Nations autonomy and storytelling. Maya has previously worked as Assistant Curator at the Koorie Heritage Trust and Blak Dot Gallery.

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