Abstract: Wandering through the Brisbane Gallery of modern art's permanent collection of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, one can see just how many Indigenous artists have begun incorporating video art into their practice in recent years. GoMA's contemporary Indigenous collection is one of the strongest of its kind in the country, and was exhibited from June to October 2013 in the survey show My Country, I still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia. On the walls hung video works by prominent artists such as Richard Bell, Vernon Ah Kee and Bindi Cole, and filmmakers such as Warwick Thornton and Genevieve Grieves. All used video to expand upon their exploration of Aboriginal identities and experiences, but what is also striking is the way these artists are reinvigorating a medium that has, in the wider field, largely lost touch with its political origins. These artists are using the now omnipresent medium to ask difficult questions about race and history that are rarely addressed in the public sphere.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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