IMA LIVE: The Future is First Nations

17th September, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Institute of Modern Art

Join the IMA, Friday 17 September as we launch IMA LIVE: The Future is First Nations, an up-late event curated by IMA First Nations public program coordinators Tallara Gray and Adam Ford.

A proposition, an alternative, a reimagining, and a celebration: The Future is First Nations is but a window through which we can imagine a different future, one where First Nations peoples can shape from creativity the freedom to celebrate themselves and each other—with sovereignty, agency, and connection to Country.

Across the evening experience a series of pop-up activations presented with deadly artists and creatives, including DJ DameeeelaHannah DonnellyJarra Karalinar SteelBlak SeedMaringla handcrafted jewellery, and more to be announced.

Conceived in response to Kokatha/Nukunu artist Yhonnie Scarce’s exhibition, Missile Park, IMA LIVE: First Nations Futures night proposes an alternative to the dark histories explored in Scarce’s work. In Missile Park, painful and traumatic histories are invoked and memorialised. Colonial pasts seep into the present and perhaps even the future, although this is yet to be known. It is from the vantage point of an uncertain future that IMA LIVE: The Future is First Nations was imagined.

More Information

Info not available

Info not available

Related Posts

Milan Milojevic: The Land that never was (or Is)

Milan Milojevic: The Land that never was (or Is)

20230617
20230723
The Asia Pacific Architecture Festival

The Asia Pacific Architecture Festival

20230609
20230623
Ian Friend: Intimate Immensity

Ian Friend: Intimate Immensity

20230610
20230812
Artefacts of the working process

Artefacts of the working process

20230624
20230715
James Barth: Earthbound

James Barth: Earthbound

20230603
20230624
Philip Wolfhagen

Philip Wolfhagen

20230523
20230617
Keemon Williams: sunk-cost fallacy

Keemon Williams: sunk-cost fallacy

20230603
20230610
Clare Brodie: Moon In Waiting

Clare Brodie: Moon In Waiting

20230609
20230623
Hoda Afshar: Undone

Hoda Afshar: Undone

20230603
20230624
Kristen Lethem

Kristen Lethem

20230526
20230613