Sovereign Acts l Love Praxis by Unbound Collective at FUMA

Sovereign Acts | Love Praxis
Unbound Collective

Tour and floor talk.

This landmark exhibition celebrates 10 years of critical and creative work by the nationally acclaimed Unbound Collective, a group of First Nations women based on Kaurna Yarta whose shared praxis represents a rupturing and reimagining of colonial institutions, and radical endeavour to shape the world anew.

Featuring moving images, installations, song, poetry and performance, Sovereign Acts | Love Praxis traces Unbound Collective’s journey from its inaugural exhibition in 2014 at Fontanelle Gallery in Adelaide’s inner west, to its most recent commission for the 2023 TarraWarra Biennial.
Unbound Collective is a group of activist-led creative arts practitioners and scholars based at Flinders University including Dr Ali Gumillya Baker (Mirning), Dr Faye Rosas Blanch (Mbararam, Yidinyji), Dr Natalie Harkin (Narungga), and Dr Simone Ulalka Tur (Yankunytjatjara). Their individual and collective work centres on ethical practice and responsibility, using memory and storytelling to critically engage with colonial sites of power and knowledge production, such as universities, galleries, libraries, archives and museums.

Image: Unbound Collective performing Sovereign Acts III: REFUSE, 2018, Vitalstatistix, Climate Century Festival, Port Adelaide. Photo: Tony Kearney