Join us for the public program for Objects testify, an exhibition exploring the colonial legacies of Australia's built environment and its ongoing impact on First Nations communities, led by Wiradjuri anti-disciplinary artist Joel Sherwood Spring. A program of closed and public conversations between First Nations community, scholars, artists, architects, and designers articulates the wider discourses of Objects testify and consider the possibility of new forms of testimony.

In this public talk, Therese Keogh joins Joel Sherwood Spring in the gallery for a conversation on legal fictions.

About the participants

Therese Keogh is an artist and writer living on Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country. Therese’s practice operates at intersections between sculpture, geography, and landscape architecture, to produce multilayered projects exploring the socio-political and material conditions of narrative and knowledge production. Therese works collaboratively through writing and research projects, and is invested in collective imaginaries as a process of creating more just relations to land.

Joel Sherwood Spring is a Wiradjuri anti-disciplinary artist, writer and broadcaster, who works collaboratively on projects that sit outside established discourses of contemporary art, architecture and power. His discursive and spatial practice examines the contested narratives of Australia’s urban cultural and Indigenous history in the face of ongoing colonisation. Spring is a Co-Director of Future Method Studio, a collaborative and interdisciplinary practice working across architecture, installation and speculative projects. In 2021, he guest edited Runway Journal’s 44th issue TIME and was a commissioned artist for Ceremony, the 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial, 2022 at the National Gallery of Australia, curated by Hetti Perkins.