By Bruce Koussaba — 3 April, 2020
This is the first article in a series produced in partnership with Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement and Diversity Arts Australia, as part of the StoryCasters Project. Growing up Black in Australia meant living with subtle, but frequent, acts of discrimination. My white friend’s mother was always glad to have me over. She’d take pride…
By Chloe Watfern — 16 August, 2019
‘Why cover the same ground again?…It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.’ Homer, The Odyssey ‘It is half the art of storytelling to keep a story free from explanation as one reproduces it.’ Walter Benjamin, The Storyteller, (1936) I’m not going to tell you about the…
By Dr. Jessica Olivieri — 20 February, 2019
Megan Monte and Josephine Skinner mark one year at the helm of Cement Fondu with The Ropes, an exhibition that brings together the work of First Nations artist/choreographer/performer Amrita Hepi and American conceptual artist/philosopher Adrian Piper. Alongside The Ropes is an exhibition of contemporary woven sculpture by the Yirran Miigaydhu Weavers. Placing these three practices…
By Paul Kelaita — 26 April, 2018
My mum’s voice rings out a warning-slash-admonishment in my head: ‘Make sure the stove is off.’ Even though I check regularly, responsibly, maybe excessively, sometimes I don’t trust myself. Other times I’m so lost in thought when checking the stove that I don’t actually check it. It’s this minor, but pervasive, homely anxiety that greets…