Kara Walker stirs the pot with nightmarish visions of Antebellum America
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Kara Walker is one of America’s most significant living artists, known for cut-paper silhouettes and gigantic public sculptures, using the visual artefacts of slavery in nightmarish black and white scenes. At the heart is an exploration of race, sexuality and gender, and a critique of white supremacy. Could the black-humoured delivery of the message get lost on Australian audiences? Hopefully not – two of her works, Your World is About to Change and a film, Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions – have been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia. Daniel was in conversation with Kara Walker for the NGA’s Annual Lecture in 2022. First broadcast September 2022. My Thing is… anti-fashion. Kiel Rogers fell into haute couture after doing TAFE work experience at the WA Ballet. He's since travelled the world and worked with some of the best, dressing Billie Eilish and Lady Gaga along way. Now back on home soil, Rogers returned to his punk roots with his streetwear label Garbage TV. First broadcast April 2023. Rosa visits the studio of Filipino Australian artist Mark Valenzuela. Raised in army camps across Mindanao, Valenzuela found his way to art and used it to challenge authority and state violence. His sculptural installations are a surreal and poetic take on the military, animist beliefs and living in two worlds. A monograph is published by Wakefield Press. First broadcast May 2023.
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