Susan Hiller: Being Rational about the Irrational

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Amala Groom: Cosmic Body of remembrance
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Hannah Donnelly

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imagineNATIVE at 20
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Pauline Clague in conversation with Jason Ryle

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Sydney Elders: Continuing Aboriginal Stories

State Library of NSW

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Jonathan Jones

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Speaking back to colonial collections: Building living to Aboriginal archives
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Kirsten Thorpe

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Unravelling the past: Barbed wire and campfire learnings
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Ali Cobby Eckermann

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Dark Emu: Thank the Earth
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Bruce Pascoe

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Deaths in custody: We've got to give it everything
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Lorena Allum

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Indigenous storytelling: Deconstructing the archetype
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Pauline Clague

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Visitors to the Adelaide Festival will be able to see From the Freud Museum and Wild Talents. at the Experimental Art Foundation from 26 February recent works by visiting London-based artist Susan Hiller. Cath Kenneally spoke to her in London about her history and her art.

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