Decolonising the Landscape MultiStudio 1 (AIND10005)

In this subject, students will engage in creative practice in multimodal studios. Multimodal studio foregrounds a range of Indigenous creative and cultural knowledges and practices in the creative arts and/or performance studio to consider how Indigenous Knowledges can diversify and decentre colonial knowledges and knowledge production.

After an introduction to cultural literacies and Indigenous learning and art making experiences (2 weeks), students will work in the studio with Indigenous and non-Indigenous educators over 4 weeks to consider ways of centring Indigenous Knowledges and its production. In the second half of the semester students will continue to engage in the relationships between practice and place and develop responses, dialogues and art-making with Indigenous and non-Indigenous arts practitioners.

Students will reflect on the role of First Nations artists and artmaking practices in the reclamation of Indigenous Knowledge practices and how to work with respect and responsibility in relation to Indigenous cultural practices.

This subject is developed and lead by Indigenous scholarship, pedagogies and knowledges in creative and cultural practices.

The subject is co-taught with First Nations people.