Gowidja (After)

Single Channel Video

The western value system continues to govern Indigenous peoples, our knowledge and country in Australia. A decentralised world can only exist in conjunction with the past and present time. Gowidja (After) undertakes a critical evaluation of centralised operational systems such as the governance and control of our cultural material in museums, galleries and collections, land management and extractive practices. Gowidja (After) presents a near and Indigenous-led future where all centralised governance and power has been dispersed outwards amongst Indigenous people and communities. In this future we have ownership of our cultural materials and objects, autonomy over our representation and agency to achieve our self-determinism.

ACMI x Unfinished Camp

Gowidja (After) was commissioned by ACMI and Unfinished Camp and was presented as part of Unfinished Live at the The Shed, New York. Australian artists Moorina Bonini, Kalanjay Dhir and Jazz Money shared their works created for Unfinished Camp on Gallery 5, via the ACMI website. The artists joined a global network of 24 other young creative thinkers collectively responding to the idea of What does art look like in a decentralised future?, and presented at Unfinished Live at House of Electronic Arts, Basel on September 23, and The Shed, New York on September 24 2021.