How I See It: Blak Art & Film
ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne Australia

New visions from eight Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives.

Spanning moving image, installation, documentary, photography and video games, How I See It amplifies the artists and filmmakers’ perspectives on representation, the gaze, colonial archives and knowledge systems. These eight creators consider how First Peoples have been historically represented on our screens as they also imagine alternate realities and futures. The exhibition showcases works that use diverse materials and ideas to disrupt and reimagine, as well as expand the artists’ practice, supporting experimentation with new technologies and mediums.

How I See It, at ACMI Melbourne, curated by Kate ten Buuren (Taungurung), unveils five new commissions by:

• Amrita Hepi (Bundjulung and Ngāpuhi) – Scripture for a smoke screen: Episode 1 – dolphin house

• Jazz Money (Wiradjuri) – Rodeo Baby!

• Joel Sherwood Spring (Wiradjuri) – DIGGERMODE

• Jarra Karalinar Steel (Boon Wurrung, Wemba Wemba and Trawlwoolway) – More Than Just a Game

• Peter Waples-Crowe (Ngarigo) – Ngaya (I am)

alongside works by:

• Essie Coffey OAM (Murawari) – My Survival as an Aboriginal (1978)

• Destiny Deacon (KuKu and Erub/Mer) – various works, 1992–2002

• Steven Rhall (Taungurung) – Avert (2017)

Photography Mark Ashkanarsay

16 December 2022 - 19 February 2023