How do artists and arts professionals navigate/cut through colonial constructs while caring for culture?

Please join us for this panel discussion between artists whose work features in Assembly: Unveiling the City of Adelaide’s Contemporary Art Collection, on display at the Adelaide Town Hall. Moderated by the beautiful mind of Dominic Guerrera.

Dominic Guerrera is a Ngarrindjeri and Kaurna poet, writer, artist and curator. He programs, potters and is a champion community organiser. His works focus’ on themes of Aboriginal resistance and culture. He has been published in Artlink, Granta, Fine Print and Cordite Review. In 2021 he was awarded the Oodgeroo Noonuccal Poetry Prize. He guest edited a book of blak poetry and stoey The Rocks Remain with Karen Wyld.

Ali Gumillya Baker is a Mirning woman from the Nullarbor, who has grown up on Kaurna Country. She is an artist, performer, filmmaker and member of the Unbound Collective and her areas of research include, colonial archives, memory and inter-generational transmission of knowledge. Her work with the Unbound Collective engages Aboriginal community members who historically have been contained and excluded to speak back to colonial institutions of power as dominant repositories of knowledge.

Yusuf Ali Hayat is committed to social justice. He has worked in leadership roles for several international non-government organisations across social housing, social support and Emergency Relief. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of South Australia with a research focus on migrant narratives, transcultural aesthetics and intersubjectivity in art. As an artist, Yusuf’s work integrates photography, video, painting and architectural approaches to sculptural form. He recently undertook artist residencies at the British School at Rome and NEXUS Arts, Adelaide. He has exhibited in Australia and overseas.

Lara Tilbrook works to Care for Country on the ancient homelands of the Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri and Narungga Nations on Karta Pintingga (Kangaroo Island). Her practice is fundamentally grounded in environmentalism with deep listening and change making at its core. Tilbrook’s hand-crafted body adornments, sculpture and installations are composed of materials close at hand, functioning as important records of biodiversity.

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Ali Gumillya Baker
Loophole Shelter with Faye Rosas Blanch, (detail), 2021
archival digital print
Image courtesy the artist