Celebrate Indigenous artists and filmmakers as they invite you to imagine a future unbound by representations that seek to curb and control. Spanning moving images, installations, documentaries, photography and video games, How I See It will amplify new visions from eight Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives at this latest exhibition from ACMI.
Curated by Kate ten Buuren (Taungurung), this free exhibition at ACMI considers how First Peoples have been historically captured on our screens while also imagining alternate realities and futures.
In How I See It, these eight artists and filmmakers address themes of representation and colonialism by exploring Indigenous identity and framing experiences through a subversive lens.
Expect five new commissions by Amrita Hepi (Bundjalung and Ngāpuhi), Jazz Money (Wiradjuri), Joel Sherwood Spring (Wiradjuri), Jarra Karalinar Steel (Boon Wurrung, Wemba Wemba and Trawlwoolway) and Peter Waples-Crowe (Ngarigo), alongside works by Essie Coffey OAM (Muruwari), Destiny Deacon (KuKu and Erub/Mer), and Steven Rhall (Taungurung).
How I See It will also include a genre-bending film program curated by Jenna Rain Warwick (Luritja). The films will subvert traditional western storytelling by holding up a mirror to ideas of place and identity while reflecting on the stories and representations of First Nations peoples.
