Culture+Ideas

Curator's Floor Talk
with Alana Kushnir

Saturday, 24 October 2015

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Alana Kushnir, curator of Collection+: Christian Thompson will present a floor talk exploring the genesis of the exhibition as well as her curatorial approach to the Collection+ show.

Saturday, 24 October 2015
11.30am – 12.30pm

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
16-20 Goodhope Street
Paddington NSW 2021

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Alana Kushnir has selected works by Thompson from The Gene & Brian Sherman Collection alongside other significant pieces from private and public collections in Australia. In Collection+: Christian Thompson Kushnir explores what it truly means to own or possess something, the extinction and rediscovery of indigenous languages and the appropriation of indigenous Australian material culture. 

Christian Thompson, Tree of Knowledge, 2013
Still from documentation of a performance
12 June 2013, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Videographer: Brad Jarrett © Art Gallery of New South Wales