(Dis)connected to Country: Mapping Archives Through Arts Practice
Jahkarli Romanis, Pitta Pitta, 2024, digital pigment print on alpha-cellulose, 5m x 7m.
Join us for an exhibition by Jahkarli Romanis, a proud Pitta Pitta woman, artist, and PhD researcher reshaping Indigenous representation through photography and mapping technologies.
(Dis)connected to Country: Mapping Archives Through Arts Practice is a project that maps the intersections of Place, identity, and family, critically examining the encoded biases embedded within photographic technologies from an Indigenous perspective.
Using a practice-led research approach, this project interrogates archival representations and explores the concept of photographs as entities with their own agency. By disrupting and subverting colonial approaches to image-making and mapping systems, (Dis)connected to Country: Mapping Archives Through Arts Practice highlights the omission of significant Indigenous Knowledges. Guided by questions such as how decolonial cartography practices can reconnect family history and Stolen Generations to Pitta Pitta Country, the project examines the transformative potential of creative methodologies in addressing these themes. It explores how archival documents, particularly those from the Tindale Genealogical Collection, enable family mapping practices and strengthen ties to Country.
Additionally, the research investigates how arts practices—spanning Spoken Word Yarning, photography, video, and performance—can facilitate connections with Ancestors and Pitta Pitta Country. Expanding Yarning methodologies through the integration of Spoken Word performance, the project offers a new lens to consider how arts practice can function as a form of mapping. Through these methods, (Dis)connected to Country: Mapping Archives Through Arts Practice advances a decolonial framework for reclaiming history, story and identity, fostering relational accountability to Ancestors, community and Country.
Event Details
- Date:
- 15 February 2025 at 12:00 am – 22 February 2025 at 12:00 am
- Venue:
- MADA Gallery
- Categories:
- Fine Art; Graduate Research; Gallery / Exhibition; Gallery: MADA Gallery
Description
Jahkarli Romanis, Pitta Pitta, 2024, digital pigment print on alpha-cellulose, 5m x 7m.
Join us for an exhibition by Jahkarli Romanis, a proud Pitta Pitta woman, artist, and PhD researcher reshaping Indigenous representation through photography and mapping technologies.
(Dis)connected to Country: Mapping Archives Through Arts Practice is a project that maps the intersections of Place, identity, and family, critically examining the encoded biases embedded within photographic technologies from an Indigenous perspective.
Using a practice-led research approach, this project interrogates archival representations and explores the concept of photographs as entities with their own agency. By disrupting and subverting colonial approaches to image-making and mapping systems, (Dis)connected to Country: Mapping Archives Through Arts Practice highlights the omission of significant Indigenous Knowledges. Guided by questions such as how decolonial cartography practices can reconnect family history and Stolen Generations to Pitta Pitta Country, the project examines the transformative potential of creative methodologies in addressing these themes. It explores how archival documents, particularly those from the Tindale Genealogical Collection, enable family mapping practices and strengthen ties to Country.
Additionally, the research investigates how arts practices—spanning Spoken Word Yarning, photography, video, and performance—can facilitate connections with Ancestors and Pitta Pitta Country. Expanding Yarning methodologies through the integration of Spoken Word performance, the project offers a new lens to consider how arts practice can function as a form of mapping. Through these methods, (Dis)connected to Country: Mapping Archives Through Arts Practice advances a decolonial framework for reclaiming history, story and identity, fostering relational accountability to Ancestors, community and Country.