RECKONINGS
Reckonings. Looking for new ways to listen, because
home is a personal
thing.
Reckonings brings together Indigenous and
non-Indigenous artists: Jonathan
Bottrell Jones, Ruark Lewis, Romaine Moreton and Nuha
Saad, to collaborate
on an installation which inaugurates Performance
Space1s ongoing project
which reflects on and examines the Australian
contexts and meanings of
reconciliation(s). Working with the idea of the
locale, the artists draw on
personal memories and histories of family in and
around Redfern. Reckonings
sets out to rewrite and remap Redfern - the edge of
the city, the centre of
interracial and cultural interaction, and the black
heart of Sydney.
The idea of an Aboriginal place like Redfern evokes
the politics of cultural
and social 3unknowing2 in contemporary Australia. By
creating a temporary
studio collective, the artists have made a work using
photography, light,
sound recordings, film and video, sculptural
installation and painting. The
work spotlights the multi-dimensionalism of this
inner city precinct and
examines the effects of urban consolidation on low
income communities and
marginalised groups.
Reckonings is the result of six months of debates,
arguments and listening,
in which the artists explored the multiplicity of
Redfern1s history, visited
each other in Redfern and crossed boundaries.
Reckonings reflects on the
past with the intention of opening debate about the
future of Australia.
Opening: Thursday 26 July 6pm – 8pm
To be opened by Tanya Plibersek - the Federal Member
for Sydney
Artists: Jonathan Bottrell Jones, Ruark Lewis,
Romaine Moreton & Nuha Saad
Curators: Ihab Shalbak & Rea
Exhibiting: 27 July – 26 August Wed-Sat 12noon-6pm
FREE
Forum: 26 August 2pm
Performance Space - 199 Cleveland Street Redfern
Info: 9698 7235 – email:
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www.performancespace.com.au
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