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Asialink

Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival

Event Name Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival
Start Date 10th Feb 2012 11:00am
End Date 12th Feb 2012 6:00pm
Duration 2 days and 7 hours
Description Shadowlife is an exhibition of moving image works by six internationally renowned contemporary Indigenous Australian artists (and one non-Indigenous collaborator), curated by Djon Mundine OAM & Natalie King.

Presented as a looped screening with a contextual talk by curator Djon Mundine OAM, Shadowlife explores the notion of the shadow as a representation of our soul that can never leave or exist independent of the body.

The screening includes moving image works by Vernon Ah Kee, Bindi Cole, Destiny Deakin & Virginia Fraser, Fiona Foley, Ivan Sen and Christian Thompson.

The exhibition will be screened on a loop in Studio 1 from 10am to 6pm, pausing for the talk by Djon Mundine OAM from 3pm to 4pm.

Screening:

  • Whitefella Normal, Blackfella Me, Vernon Ah Kee, 30 secs, Australia, 2004
  • Seventy Times Seven, Bindi Cole, 10:21 mins, Australia, 2011
  • Forced into images, Destiny Deacon & Virginia Fraser, 9 mins, Australia, 2001
  • Bliss, Fiona Foley, 11 mins, Australia, 2006
  • Dust, Ivan Sen, 25 mins, Australia, 1999
  • Gamu Mambu (Blood Song), Christian Thompson, 2:30 mins, Australia, 2010
Presented by City of Melbourne and Asialink. Supported by Bendigo Art Gallery.

Dates:         Sat 11 Feb 2012, 11am-6pm
Location:     Studio 1, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Federation Square, Melbourne
Admission:  Free - Drop in any time

For further information, see the ACMI website