Artist Talk: Julie Gough
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Cnr of Swanston St and Masson Rd, Parkville
Join us for a special closing-week event as artist Julie Gough and curator Judith Ryan AM discuss The Missing, Gough's commission for 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art.
Gough’s practice explores hidden and conflicting histories, often drawing upon her own and her family’s experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
In The Missing, Gough responds to the University of Melbourne’s late nineteenth-century plaster casts of Nununi leaders Wurati and Trukanini, first modelled by artist Benjamin Law in Nipaluna (Hobart) in 1835–36.
As part of her research, Gough visited institutions across Australia and internationally that hold reproductions of these busts, filming them where they are kept.
The resulting video work is, as Gough describes, ‘incompletable’, reflecting on the impossibility of tracing every cast and the ongoing displacement of Aboriginal cultural objects, Ancestors and people from Country.
Free entry. Please note that capacity is limited and bookings are essential.
Auslan interpretation is available on request at least one week prior to the event.