Javier Téllez: NOSFERATU (The Undead)

'NOSFERATU (The Undead)' is a film installation by Venezuelan born, New York-based artist Javier Téllez that focuses on cinema and mental illness.

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The Big Anxiety

The Big Anxiety – festival of arts + science + people, brings together artists, scientists and communities to question and re-imagine the state of mental health in the 21st century.

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Research Forum: Launch, Discipline no.5 / Más Allá del Fin no.3

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A&D ANNUAL 19

The largest national showcase of graduate contemporary art and design, the UNSW Art & Design A&D Annual launches the next generation of artists, designers, makers and digital media creators.

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Wansolwara: One Salt Water

‘Wansolwara: One Salt Water’ is a series of exhibitions, performances and events from across the Pacific and throughout the Great Ocean. Wansolwara – a pidgin word from the Solomon Islands meaning ‘one-salt-water’ or ‘one ocean, one people’ – reflects not a single ocean, but rather a connected waterscape that holds distinct and diverse cultures and communities. Through art, performance and conversation, the project celebrates the depth and diversity of contemporary visual and material culture throughout these regions, placing customary practices alongside contemporary articulations in art, writing and the moving image.

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OFO HAKE: Koe Ngatu Teuteu 'o 'Akesa mo 'Isileli Fifita

This special project features a monumental ngatu (painted tapa) created by Tongan artist and curator Ruha Fifita in New Caledonia alongside a recent ngatu made collaboratively with her family in Aotearoa New Zealand. This new work represents not only the critical role of fibre arts in Tongan community life but also the honouring of familial knowledge and intergenerational learning for the grandchildren of Akesa and 'Isileli Fifita. The title evokes the sense of arising to respond to something new, a new awareness and level of consciousness embedded in the process.

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ʻO le ūa na fua mai Manuʻa

ʻO le ūa na fua mai Manuʻa’ brings fresh international perspectives to current endeavours to embody and awaken Indigenous sensual and spoken languages. The exhibition takes its title from a Sāmoan proverb that describes the incoming rain from the Sāmoan island of Manuʻa (currently within the unincorporated territory of the United States of America) and bittersweet or melancholic moments leading to much-needed change.

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Shivanjani Lal

Shivanjani Lal is a twice-removed Fijian Indian Australian artist who works with archival images, found materials, video, performance and ritual. Her work explores the indentured labour diaspora of the Indian and Pacific Oceans and the histories that brought her family from India to Fiji and now to Australia. By unpacking experiences of intergenerational trauma, grief and healing in her work, Lal preserves, creates and redefines the history of the Indo-Fijian community away from the current political climate in both Fiji and India.

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