Home again. I'm glad I pushed myself out the door. Met some interesting people, caught up with others I'd not seen for years, listened to an excellent session, and had party pies & red wine

Panel session I went to was Language and the Archives. Featuring Léuli Eshraghi (Sāmoan and Persian artist/writer) in discussion with Unbound Collective. Léuli shared this poem, that he wrote for the exhibition that was being launched today > http://www.fineprintmagazine.com/field-notes#/expanses

Léuli was in discussion with Ali Gumillya Baker, Simone Ulalka Tur and Faye Rosas Blanch - the Unbound Collective from Flinders University. (Poet Natalie Harkins is the other member) https://www.flinders.edu.au/college-humanities-arts-social-sciences/unbound

Focus was navigating colonisers' archives and museum collections. And violence of anthro etc. The all-Indigenous panel of academic-artists had a lot to share on this topic - from a place where personal (self, family, ancestors) meets creative practice meets academia meets truth.

An envelope was then passed around the small audience, and we each pulled out a tiny piece of brown paper - a message from the Unbound Collective. Mine said: "We are compelled to find our way into this place, this space. We are on Kaurna Land."

And on that note, it's time to take the smol dogs for another walk. Maybe we'll even find new spaces. And imagine the pre-invasion era. On Kaurna yerta.

(adding: websites I looked up for information on Léuli's creative practices used a different pronoun than the attachment I shared. So please note that I've used the incorrect pronoun in the second post of this thread. It should read: they. Apologies to Léuli)