Artists and Flinders academic staff Ali Gumillya Baker, Simone Ulalka Tur, Faye Rosas Blanch and Natalie Harkin will be performing Bound and Unbound: Sovereign Acts (Act II) as part of the TARNANTHI Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.

Performance 1 is on 8 October, meeting at 7.30pm at the Fish Gates of the Art Gallery of SA. Performance 2 is on 14 October, meeting at 7.30pm in the State Library of SA forecourt.

Act II is a project in three stages. The two performances in the outdoor space between the Flinders City Gallery and State Library Institute Building on North Terrace have accompanying images and installation narrative on 10 bus shelters in the City and suburbs.

Act II speaks back to colonial institutions of power as dominant repositories of culture/knowledge. The institutions on North Terrace contain many founding documents and historic journals, letters, images and diaries of non-Indigenous explorers and colonists, as well as their depictions of Aboriginal people. Within these collections are representations of the artists’ families and communities.

Unbound Act II will perform, project and respond to these imposed colonial spaces, retelling the rarely told histories of these spaces from Indigenous embodied perspectives.

The poster for the event is here.