Artists

Radical Hospitalities brings together established artists, academics and curators from across Australia and the Asia Pacific region

Their work is concerned with histories of nuclear colonialism, climate change and the radical potential of Quantum Field Theory and Indigenous knowledge systems for reconfiguring our relationship to time, space, matter and each other.

Growing out of a conversation between American philosopher River Karen Barad, Bougainville artist Taloi Havini and curator, Ruth McDougall the Radical Hospitalities workshop invites Australian based artists Latai Taumoepeau and Yhonnie Scarce, celebrated Marshallese poet Kathy Jetñil Kijiner and Japanese photographer Takashi Arai. Each of these artists are known for the sophisticated ways in which they engage audiences in concerns around histories of nuclear colonialism, climate change and First Nations people’s experience. Academics Talei Mangioni and Samid Suliman bring experience collaborating with First Nations communities on projects focused on histories of nuclear testing in Australia and the Pacific.

In Residence at Bundanon

The workshop participants seek to collectively explore Barad’s ideas of a radical hospitality and to delve into how these ideas may intersect with the philosophical ideas of time and space that from part of Asian, Pacific and Australian Indigenous knowledge systems. Over the course of seven days, each of the participants will have the opportunity to present recent research, works in progress, and areas of interest and concern to the group for discussion. Fusing the intensity of living with each other and cultural indexes of Oceanic wānanga with an Open Space Learning pedagogy encourages creative (not cultural) risk taking and does not have an expected outcome, this we will develop through the process itself as opposed to presetting it beforehand