The Art of Resistance

The Art of Resistance

explore the notion of 'resistance' through addressing social, historical, cultural and political issues affecting Indigenous people globally. Explore ways in which Indigenous artists use art as a form of resistance; using their practice as a tool to advocate for these issues.

Consider
Frontier wars (Lecture): Introduction into the frontier wars and artist responses.
Key artists: Judy Watson (Names of Places), Fiona Foley. 

Stolen generations (Lecture): Artists remembering the stolen generations.
Key artists: Julie Dowling, Tony Albert, Bindi Cole. 

The art of the Manifesto (Lecture): Exploring manifesto's. What are they and how to write them. 

Always was Always will be... (Lecture): Exploring land rights, native tile including the freedom rides.
Key Artists: Richard Bell, Vernon Ah Kee, Brenda Croft, Mervyn Bishop. 

Assimilation (Lecture): Assimilation and the politics of skin: exploring the Andrew Bolt case and other discussions around Aboriginal skin colour and authenticity and artistic responses.
Key Artists: Bindi Cole, Megan Cope, Bianca Beetson, Archie Moore. 

The art of Protest (Lecture): Exploring the history of Posters and T-shirts in Activism around the world.

Taking it to the streets (Lecture): Exploring the role of performance art and activism from around the world.
Key artists: Anthony Fernando, Richard Bell, Pussy Riot, Pussy Beanie movement, Coco Fusco, Yoko Ono. 

Cultural Sovereignty (Lecture): What is is Cultural Sovereignty? How can we assert our cultural Sovereignty? unpacking the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and how can we use it to inform our practice? 

Occupied (Lecture): Looking at the occupied movement and artist that respond to notions of the Occupied movement. This also links to the Sovereignty movement in Australia.

Thinking Globally (Lecture): Thinking globally, creative activism that spans the globe such as Black lives matter, Me too, the ice bucket challenge, the woman march against Trump. 


Reconcillation (Lecture): Reconciliation or wreck the silly nation? What does it really mean to reconcile? How can we move forward together as a nation?