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Program

Forerunner: Unfinished Business

Anne Marsh (academic and researcher), as well as participating artists Atong Atem and Emily Floyd, to start the conversation about the historical legacies and new debates within feminism and discuss the ‘unfinished business’ of feminism today...
Podcast

A World of One’s Own: Portrait of a Bright Future with Atong Atem

How important is it to make yourself and others visible? What can a photograph achieve, and what is the power of the photographer? Tai Snaith and Atong Atem discuss all the different aspects of Atong’s identity and how making sense of them informs her artwork. Atong explains what it is like...
Podcast

Forerunner: Unfinished Business

Speakers: Atong Atem is a South Sudanese artist and writer whose work explores postcolonial practices in the diaspora, the relationship between public and private spaces and the politics of looking and being looked at. Paola Balla is a Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara artist, curator and academic, Victoria...
Podcast

Forerunner: Unfinished Business

Speakers: Atong Atem is a South Sudanese artist and writer whose work explores postcolonial practices in the diaspora, the relationship between public and private spaces and the politics of looking and being looked at. Paola Balla is a Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara artist, curator and academic, Victoria...
Exhibition

Who’s Afraid of Public Space?

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Who’s Afraid of Public Space? is a multifaceted project of exhibitions and programs exploring the role of public culture, the contested nature of public space, and the character and composition of public life. The exhibition continues ACCA’s Big Picture series, which explores contemporary art’s relation to wider social, cultural […]

Exhibition

Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism

Continuing ACCA’s ongoing series of Big Picture exhibitions focussing on contemporary art’s relation to wider social, cultural and political contexts, Unfinished Business is a major exhibition conceived to animate critical, albeit under-represented, practices and debates within contemporary Australian art and society.
Surveying the diverse scope of feminist art practices – including painting, performance, photography and film to community […]

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Education Space: Creating Art in Public

...public artists. Artists: Atong Atem, Ross Coulter,  Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, Eugenia Lim, John Meade, Clement...
Program

First Nations Forum

Museum) and Associate Curator of Indigenous Objects and Photography (Art Gallery of Western Australia). Glenn’s most recent curatorial projects are ‘Other Horizons: Atong Atem | Hayley Millar Baker| Jasmine Togo-Brisby,’ ‘Marawar-ak | From the West: Contemporary Art from Western...
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Tai Snaith: A World of One’s Own

Artists: Atong Atem, Paola Balla, Archie Barry, Megan Cope, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Kate Just, Sanné Mestrom, Rowan Oliver, Stanislava Pinchuk, Lucreccia Quintanilla, Laura Skerlj, Esther Stewart, Meredith Turnbull...
Press Release

Who’s Afraid of Public Space?

Idil Ali, APHIDS, Beth Arnold and Sary Zananiri, Atong Atem, Timmah Ball, Joey Barrilo, Tony Birch, N’arweet Carolyn Briggs and Sarah Lynn Rees, Jon Campbell, Michael Candy, Simona Castricum, Sonia Leber and David Chesworth, Chunky Move, Boris Cipusev, Nicola Cortese / Lauren Crockett / Stephanie...
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Who’s Afraid of Public Space?

Atong Atem Timmah Ball...
Press Release

Announcing ACCA’s Summer Season – Who’s Afraid of Public Space?

Guled Abdulwasi, Idil Ali, APHIDS, Beth Arnold and Sary Zananiri, Atong Atem, Timmah Ball, Joey Barrilo, Tony Birch, N’Arweet Carolyn...
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First Nations Curatorial Symposium

...are ‘Other Horizons: Atong Atem | Hayley Millar Baker| Jasmine Togo-Brisby,’ ‘Marawar-ak | From the West: Contemporary Art from Western Australia, 'Jila Kujarra | Two Snakes Dreaming' and ‘Undertow’, all presented at Fremantle Arts Centre...