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When: 8am, Thursday 23 November 2023
Where: Monash University, Clayton campus
Admission: Free
A special conference panel and workshop delivered from La Biennale contributing to the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) annual conference, held at Monash University from 23-25 November 2023.
This year the conference is entitled “LISTEN: Decolonising SAHANZ and Indigenising Architectural History Curricula Symposium”, and is focussed on themes closely aligned with Lesley Lokko’s “Laboratory of the Future” for La Biennale.
When: Friday 24 November 2023
Time: 10am–1.00pm (CET)
Where: Starting at Docks Cantieri Cucchini, S. Pietri di Castello, Venice, Italy
Scotland Exhibition Venue, then Arsenale, then Giardini
Admission: Free
*attendees will still require a La Biennale entry pass to enter Giardini and Arsenale. This is not provided as a part of this experience
Hauntings of colonial Queenstowns by a ravaged Country dispossessed of its First Peoples. Insights embedded in the myths and materials of the islands of Ireland. Correspondences between language and place in the Highlands, Islands and Lowlands of Scotland.
The themes and experiences of the Australian, Irish and Scottish representations at La Biennale di Venezia resonate between each other, reflecting the connections between their respective countries and histories. This curatorial collaboration for the Finissage explores these connections via a perambulating dialogue across the Australian, Irish and Scottish exhibitions, unspooling the themes of place, resources, and temporality within and between the shows, and weaving them across the spaces of La Biennale and Venice itself.
These Finnisage events are run by the creative directors, are open to the public and free to attend.
The opening Roundtable will be available to watch live via Zoom.
*This event has passed
Join curators and participants from the Australian, Canadian, and Nordic pavilions for conversations across three continents, focused on decolonisation and ‘what justice wants’*. The de-institutionalisation of settler-colonialism and the potentials of Indigenous and settler-coloniser knowledges and practices to collaboratively transform spatial relations.
Two-eyed seeing is a concept used by Chief Charles Labrador of Acadia First Nation and introduced to wider audience by Mi’kmaw Elder Albert Marshall. It refers to seeing from both an Indigenous and Western methodological lens. We use this idea to think about how it might be possible to see one another through the historical violence that permeates Indigenous and settler-coloniser relations.
With a focus on global kinships and collective creative work the conversation will seek to share tactics for justice, repair and archiving for our futures. Collaborators include Indigenous and non-Indigenous architects, artists and historians: Sarah Rhodes, Ali Baker, Emily Paech, Julian Worrall, Anthony Coupe, Shawn Bailey, Simoogit Saa BaxPatrick R. Stewart, Adrian Blackwell and Joar Nango.
*Acknowledging the work of Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang, 2016 special edition Critical Ethnic Studies ‘What Justice Wants.’
