The work of Indigenous artists needs to be understood through the clarifying lens of sovereignty and self-determination, not just in terms of assimilation, colonization and identity politics […] Sovereignty is the border that shifts Indigenous experience from victimized stance to a strategic one. — Jolene Rickard (2011, p. 478)
This section is in progress: the archive will contain works by r e a made between (1990 – 2016)
gins_leap / dubb_speak – multi-channel sensor driven, video and sound installation; completed in 2006.
This work as 6 edits and all resources that is part of the creative editing of this completed work –
- r e a,
- Maria,
- Sharmaine,
- Susan &
- 2 x transition edits and an individual sound-scape for each edit);
maang series – three-channel video + sound installation; created between 2006 – 2007.
This collection of works below also had individual sound-scapes for all –
- maang (blood) – single channel work,
- maang (Why?) – single channel work &
- maang (message stick) – three channel work;
garaarr (grass) – three-channel video + sound installation [individual sound-scapes] 2012.
r e a - artist | curator | activist | academic | cultural educator 