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About this event
Join co-curators Yhonnie Scarce and Claire Watson for a celebration and discussion of the Artspace Mackay Touring Exhibition,
Violent Salt.
There will be a Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony, Auslan interpretation, speeches and refreshments.
Violent Salt discusses issues surrounding racism and discrimination against First Nations peoples and minority groups as well as the lack of respect for, and desecration of culture and the natural environment.
Violent Salt invites artists to speak their truths about these experiences and offers an opportunity for understanding and connection, whilst seeking to celebrate and honour Australia’s unique multiculturalism and landscape.
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Elaine Crombie stands on a black box stage, surrounded by midden shells on mounds of black earth, her hands clasped in tension. The rage is there in this singular womanâs emotionally affecting performance â and so is the grief.
Crombie, a Yankunytjatjara, Warrigmal and South Sea Islander woman with German ancestry, speaks English and Kamilaroi in this one-woman play, The 7 Stages of Grieving. She finds the sharp rhythm in the poetry of invasion: âMy children, stolen away to a safe place, were wrenched from familiar arms and forced to feed upon another tongue.â
As the latest actor to embody the role of this unnamed everywoman, written by Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman and first performed by Mailman in 1995, Crombie blends the skills of her dramatic, comedic and singing career with the scars of her own life, both as a daughter of the stolen generations and as the mother of sons whose skin colour renders them police tar
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Campaign designed to encourage visitors to the Museum to engage with contemporary art in a fun and accessible way
As part of the celebrations for the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’s (MCA) 30th Anniversary this year, the Museum has collaborated with Ogilvy Sydney to develop a new and distinctive brand campaign titled Your feelings welcome.
Launching today, the campaign Your feelings
welcome, invites visitors to share their feelings in response to several artworks currently on display in the MCA Collection: Perspectives on
place exhibition, using the universal language of emojis.
Developed by the MCA and Ogilvy Sydney, Your feelings welcome is an
Your feelings welcome at MCA via Ogilvy Sydney
May 12, 2021 9:23
Ogilvy Sydney has created an interactive digital experience for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: ‘Your feelings welcome’.
The announcement:
As part of the celebrations for the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia’s (MCA) 30th Anniversary this year, the Museum has collaborated with Ogilvy Sydney to develop a new and distinctive brand campaign titled Your feelings welcome. The campaign is designed to encourage visitors to the Museum to engage with contemporary art in a fun and accessible way.
Launching today, the campaign Your feelings welcome, invites visitors to share their feelings in response to several artworks currently on display in the MCA Collection: Perspectives on place exhibition, using the universal language of emojis.