I am an uninvited guest on Arrernte Country, where I have the immeasurable privilege to live, learn, work and relate. My practice uses materials extracted from other sovereign lands on this continent and across the globe, lands forcibly obscured by the tangle of settler-capitalist industry. I’d pay my respects to and stand in solidarity with all First Nations people.
Just as material lineages are obscured and fractured, so too are lineages of knowledge. Conceptions of liberation and resistance and the languages that enable a shared horizon of possibility are founded on thelived resistance to, and embodied refusal of, the oppressive structures that govern our experiences of living. I’m indebted to all the communities that, in this way, have disrupted the status quo, troubled accepted norms and lead and are leading the movements by which those oppressive structures will be dismantled.