In his speech at the launch of Courting Blakness: Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art on Saturday 4 October 2014, Andrew Boe said:
The book illuminates a path, which remains treacherous and uncertain, that is more likely to lead us to the understandings that are necessary for our children to be less ignorant than us about the invaluable resource that we have in this country in the hearts, minds and bodies of our indigenous community. And with that greater insight surely must come a better accommodation of ‘their place’ in ‘our conversation’; or should that be ‘our place’ in ‘their conversation’?
A full transcript of Andrew Boe’s speech is available here.
Featuring more than 50 striking full-colour images of the artworks as well as enlightening essays by artists, curators and academics, Courting Blakness is a stylish and comprehensive tribute and companion to this innovative project.
Pictured above: Editors (from left) Louise Martin-Chew, Fiona Foley, and Fiona Nicoll at launch of Courting Blakness. Gallery of Modern Art. October 3, 2015.
Copies of the book can be purchased from bookstores or ordered directly from University of Queensland Press.
You can purchase the book from University of Queensland Press here.
'In a bold and unprecedented project, acclaimed international artist Fiona Foley curated a cutting edge installation in the University of Queensland's sandstone Great Court. Universities have traditionally been elite institutions, overlooking and undervaluing the knowledge contributions of Indigenous thinkers, activists and artists. This history is etched into the walls of the Great Court, with anachronistic concepts of humanity and racial difference revealed in many of friezes and sculptural reliefs.
(...more)AustLit describes the full contents of the published book here.
'Courting Blakness: Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University was a groundbreaking exhibition curated by UQ Adjunct Professor, Fiona Foley. Located in the University of Queensland’s Great Court between September 5-28 in 2014, the project brought together works in different media by Ryan Presley, Archie Moore, Rea, Natalie Harkin, Karla Dickens, Christian Thompson, Megan Cope and Michael Cook.' (Source: About webpage)
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