Guest artist PAOLA BALLA
joins Jillian Knipe for this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Paola and I discuss colonisation in a place widely known as Australia, and its corresponding cost to herself, her family and her extensively long ancestral lineage, via poet Ellen van Neerven's 'Comfort Food' published in 2016.
We dive into Ellen's magically rich text as she describes the simplest of dishes alongside racist cruelty. All with the upper hand of calm reflection and a delicious dollop of sensuality.
Paola is extremely generous in sharing her stories of Indigenous hardship which she relays with clarity, humour and warmth . Our conversation expands on Paola's art practice which includes sculptural installation, curation and academia. We hear of the nature of bush dying and the shocking reality of forced encampment of her people, which continued into recent history. Paola shares her take on the mythological Mok Mok with her wild hair and no underwear, as she serves up well meaning treats in track pants and stilettos.
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EXHIBITIONS
'Treaty' 2021
'Wilam Biik' 2021
WORKS
'Banner Time' 2021
'Murrup (Ghost) Weaving in Rosie Kuka Lar (Grandmother's Camp)' 2021
'Unconditional Love Space' 2020
BOOKS & WRITERS
Ellen van Neerven 'Comfort Food'
ARTISTS
Vernon Ah Kee
Madeleine Kelly 'Spectra of Birds' 2014-2015
Symbolic Prose and Personal Politics (HELEN JOHNSON)
Closure Difficulties and Performative Reality (ELEONORA AGOSTINI)
Social Mobility and Beyond Language (MELANIE JACKSON)
Revealing Histories and Gender Variations (JULIET JACQUES)
Unwavering Sensitivity and Valuing Confusion (ANNA CLEGG)
Absent Mothers and Colonised Bodies (OLUKEMI LIJADU)
Suppressed Voices and Transformative Communities (RORY PILGRIM)
Word Play and Multiple Meanings (ANNA BARHAM)
Resistance Acoustics and Hopeful Uprising (MIKHAIL KARIKIS)
Arbitrary Traditions and Alien Observations (ROSIE GIBBENS)
Cultural Fear and Self Permission (CERI HAND)
Second Bodies and Talking Ice (SUSAN SCHUPPLI)
Disconnected Characters and Contradictory Spiritualism (SOPHIE RUIGROK)
Dark Humour and Watery Figures (NICOLA BEALING)
Slow Dancing and Fluid Encounters (FLORENCE PEAKE)
Channelling Spirits and Excluded Histories (JENNIFER HIGGIE)
Rural Reality and Complex Systems (KATIE PRATT)
Gender Entrapment and Performative Mythologies (ANNA PERACH)
CULTURE EXCHANGE - Female Resilience and Bodily Playgrounds (INGRID BERTHON-MOINE)
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