Collective Movements celebrates First Nations practices of collaboration and collectivity. The exhibition showcases a range of creative disciplines and art forms, including possum skin cloaks, ceramics and weavings, a large-scale outdoor mural, a monumental indoor painted triptych, and a moving image work featuring classical music performance, as well as an installation that functions as a gathering and learning space. The project includes an Indigenous-edited and designed publication containing texts by leading First Nations artists, curators, and writers, and a public program.
Participants include: Ensemble Dutala, ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, Kaiela Arts, Koorroyarr, Latje Latje Dance Group Mildura, Pitcha Makin Fellas, Possum Skin Cloak Story, The Torch (led by Ray Thomas), this mob, and We Iri, We Homeborn Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Festival.
Conversations with the Dead, 2019, ILBIJERRI Theatre Company in association with Arts Centre Melbourne, performed by ILBIJERRI Ensemble. Photograph: Jeff Busby. Courtesy the artists and Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA
5 May to 23 July 2022
Melbourne
