Jacqui Gordon
My project, Listening Through the West, looks at ways that creative practices can break down Australian nationalism. Australian nationalism is a dominant narrative today. It is a narrative that reproduces a single image of what it means to belong in this country, and it continually oppresses various groups of people that don’t fit that image. It exists in our educational and cultural institutions, the media and in our own psyches. To fight this narrative, we need a combination of immediate and long term action. My research focuses on a long term approach to change through creative practice. I focus on two art outcomes, An Unmarked Practice and To Practice is to Keep Trying, as well as defining the neologism ‘the anti-narrative’, as a way to re-imagine the value systems which determine society’s prevailing narratives.
An Unmarked Practice, 2019
Sound and performance
To Practice is to Keep Trying, 2020
Participatory performance and installation
To Practice is to Keep Trying, 2020
Participatory performance and installation
To Practice is to Keep Trying, 2020
Participatory performance and installation