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Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne
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Explore the intersection of idealised architectural renderings and the harsh realities of Australia’s housing crisis with Scotty So’s installation Sunset Boulevard Behind The Window.
Drop by MPavilion Parkville to view the work onsite from Tuesday 7 to Thursday 9 May.
Through a nuanced interplay of rendered images, the artwork navigates the utopian allure of luxurious living spaces and flourishing communities within the context of contemporary housing challenges. The double-sided banner presents an AI-generated image of a modern interior, using AI expanding solely from the iconic Windows XP desktop wallpaper on one side, juxtaposed with an architecturally rendered beach sunset view on the other – symbolising the profound dichotomy inherent in housing ideals. Attached to temporary fencing, reminiscent of those employed in housing development concealment, the piece prompts viewers to question the longevity of aspirational imagery when confronted with the deconstruction of facades.
This webinar is the fourth in the Australian Centre’s 2024 Critical Public Conversations series: Sovereignty and Solidarity: Redefining belonging in so-called Australia.
Stories of migration from the Mediterranean region to Australia have typically been framed within a settler national frame of historical analysis. That is, histories of Greek, Italian, Maltese, Cypriot, Turkish, and Lebanese migrant experiences are often positioned as stories of “struggle and success” in the national confines of Australian history. Such stories frame migrants from the Mediterranean region as a people who worked hard (often in small businesses or nation building infrastructure schemas) and then climbed the steep ladder of social mobility to become successfully assimilated, hyphenated Australians. Such historical narratives – which almost never centre First Nations people, Indigenous sovereignty, and Country – are frequently deployed by members of Mediterranean diasporas to claim an entitled sense of belonging to (so-called) Australia.
In this webinar, diaspora scholars Daphne Arapakis and Dr Andonis Piperoglou explore this (mis)using of the past. Illuminating the importance of the past in the construction of Greek diasporic identities today, they will explore how usages of migrant histories create culturally specific renderings of settler colonial culture, while also making space for anti-colonial activities that permit alternative, cross-border, senses of belonging.
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