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to make a basket
Edwina Green
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How do we reclaim, and do it in a way that is respectful, connected, and acknowledges the damage of colonisation, without centring this damage? At what point can we interact, and centre our language and culture, and create a safe, accessible way to connect our mob who have not had the privilege to be involved on Country?
– Edwina Green
Edwina Green’s exhibition to make a basket speaks about the connectivity of language through the practice of basket making. The artist is informed by Indigenous futurism – as both an ancestor and descendant, she works intergenerationally and across disciplines, incorporating new and existing works across digital media, installation and painting, as well as traditional and unconventional methods of basket-making.
to make a basket incorporates visual references and objects (including historical images, bull kelp baskets and texts collected by the artist’s family) into video works that highlight the artist’s mouth as she articulates and pronounces documented words from languages throughout her Country.
These are presented alongside works that utilise and interpret anew certain cultural practices disrupted and unwoven by colonisation – including shell stringing, bull kelp basket-making, and ochre crushing – reconnecting and rethreading them, basket-like, across time and space.
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