(un)held + (re)stored = stolen as part of MOVING OBJECTS in RISING Festival

MOVING OBJECTS asks First Peoples artists to create new work responding to the significant collections of Museums Victoria. Presented as projection, installation, and performance across the city, the work is a manifestation of the transformative potential of opening up access to collections held in museums; continuing the connections to historical material through contemporary creative practice.

(un)held + (re)stored = stolen, 2021

Speaking back to western structures and systems that continue to govern Indigenous epistemology, (un)held + (re)stored = stolen disrupts western modes of thinking to ultimately privilege Indigenous perspective and voice. Western institutions hold cultural materials and objects that have in some cases been stolen and collected in unethical ways from Indigenous people, (un)held + (re)stored = stolen illuminates the urgency for community access and agency in these spaces.