Karrabing Film Collective, Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams, 2016, (still).
Karrabing Film Collective Keynote: Filipa Ramos
Exhibitions available to view 6-7pm
(excluding the film Mermaids, or Aidan in Wonderland by Karrabing Film Collective)
Karrabing is an indigenous Emmiyengal word referring to the lowest point of the tide, an occasion for collective gatherings along the northwestern coastline of Australia, home of the Karrabing Film Collective. Karrabing is not a clan, not a language group, not a nation. It is an aspiration for a world in which Indigenous members control their lands, imaginations, pasts and futures. Over the years, and on different occasions ranging from online screenings, to public talks and large exhibition settings, writer and curator Filipa Ramos has been in dialogue with and presenting the work of the Karrabing Film Collective, attending to how their films are based on real-life events in which past, present and future are implicated in one another, and exploring the multiple demands and inescapable vortexes of contemporary indigenous life. Joining their critique of settler colonialism’s ongoing mission of domination and supremacy, she reflects on the significance of their work in its movement between situatedness and global circulation. Filipa Ramos will be joined by Dr Ros Gray (Goldsmiths College) as a respondent.
Ros Gray is Reader in Fine Art, Critical Studies and Programme Director of the MA Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths College. Her research and teaching often involves collaborations with artists, scientists and activists, addressing ecological emergency with an emphasis on climate justice. Coming to ecology from a background researching militant filmmaking, she is interested in decolonial, eco-feminist and queer approaches to ecological stewardship. Ros is on the Editorial Board of Third Text and is co-commissioning editor of the Goldsmiths Press book series Planetarities. She has organised numerous international conferences and film screening programmes, public engagement relating to soil care and climate change, and she was commissioned to make the podcast ‘The Coloniality of Planting’ by Camden Art Centre for the series Botanical Minds. Ros has coordinated the Goldsmiths Allotment since 2016 and she is currently leading the development of the Art Research Garden and Laboratory.
Exhibitions available to view 6-7pm
(excluding the film Mermaids, or Aidan in Wonderland by Karrabing Film Collective)
Karrabing is an indigenous Emmiyengal word referring to the lowest point of the tide, an occasion for collective gatherings along the northwestern coastline of Australia, home of the Karrabing Film Collective. Karrabing is not a clan, not a language group, not a nation. It is an aspiration for a world in which Indigenous members control their lands, imaginations, pasts and futures. Over the years, and on different occasions ranging from online screenings, to public talks and large exhibition settings, writer and curator Filipa Ramos has been in dialogue with and presenting the work of the Karrabing Film Collective, attending to how their films are based on real-life events in which past, present and future are implicated in one another, and exploring the multiple demands and inescapable vortexes of contemporary indigenous life. Joining their critique of settler colonialism’s ongoing mission of domination and supremacy, she reflects on the significance of their work in its movement between situatedness and global circulation. Filipa Ramos will be joined by Dr Ros Gray (Goldsmiths College) as a respondent.
Ros Gray is Reader in Fine Art, Critical Studies and Programme Director of the MA Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths College. Her research and teaching often involves collaborations with artists, scientists and activists, addressing ecological emergency with an emphasis on climate justice. Coming to ecology from a background researching militant filmmaking, she is interested in decolonial, eco-feminist and queer approaches to ecological stewardship. Ros is on the Editorial Board of Third Text and is co-commissioning editor of the Goldsmiths Press book series Planetarities. She has organised numerous international conferences and film screening programmes, public engagement relating to soil care and climate change, and she was commissioned to make the podcast ‘The Coloniality of Planting’ by Camden Art Centre for the series Botanical Minds. Ros has coordinated the Goldsmiths Allotment since 2016 and she is currently leading the development of the Art Research Garden and Laboratory.
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