Presented by the Australian High Commission in partnership with AVReQ Stellenbosch University

Dialogues Across Violent Histories explores the critical role that Australian and African artists, and indigenous practitioners play in providing intersectional frameworks that respond to the shared issues of historical trauma, violent displacements, and loss. The dialogues, performances and workshops will present what is common in both the (South) African and Australian experiences, as strategies of continuity that indigenous and historically marginalized peoples have established in their embodied practices to preserve themselves, their communities, and their endurance. The event is presented in multiple formats that include ritual ceremony, song, performance, and curated discussion presentations.

Key themes that the program will explore are:

– Indigeneity as an ontological relationship to place and land, and the ways art practitioners draw on this relationship in their work and its application to social cohesion.

– Transnationalism as the movement of people across political and social space, and how this creates opportunities for collaborative creative living which responds to historical displacement and dispossession.

– Intergenerational knowledge transmission and the relationships between elders and youth, and the strategies that emerge in creating continuities and connectedness.

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