Ancestral memory: out of the shadows

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Melanie Jame Wolf's Pop-Cultural Drag: The Chronopolitics of Labour, Libido and Image
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Daniel Mudie Cunningham

Published April 2021
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Apprehending the Multiverse: A Costumed Allegory for Four Percussionists Michaela Gleave's Cosmic Time
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Ann Finegan

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Michaela Stark: On Control and Beauty
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Alison Kubler

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Australian Dance Theatre
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Cigdem Ayedemir
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Sumaiya Muyeen

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On art, fashion, purpose and more: Peggy Griffiths-Madij and Jan Griffiths in conversation with Alana Hunt
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From the clothes rack to the body of the wearer: Circumnavigate Kandos in our clothes
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Ann Finegan

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Sarah Rodigari: Redressing the vernacular
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Abigail Moncrieff

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The Mangkaja x Gorman Collection: A new wave of Indigenous art and fashion collaboration
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Belinda Cook

Published April 2021

University of Melbourne Research Fellow Fran Edmonds along with Victorian artists Lee Darroch, Maree Clarke and Vicki Couzens looks at the story of Aboriginal art in Victoria as a determined reclamation of the past, a cross-generational celebration in the present and a visionary guide for the future.

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