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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: [log in to unmask] www.performancespace.com.au _____________________________________________________________________________ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more!