The grey space between art and politics

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Amala Groom: Cosmic Body of remembrance
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Hannah Donnelly

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Pauline Clague in conversation with Jason Ryle

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Sydney Elders: Continuing Aboriginal Stories

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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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Curator and Artistic Director of LUMA, La Trobe University Museum of Art, Vincent Alessi discusses art that is political and experimental focusing on the recent work of Melbourne-based Carl Scrase who describes the Occupy Movement as: “one of the greatest social art experiments the world has ever seen."

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