'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)
The content of the website was transferred to AustLit in 2017 and can be explored here.
Web pages include:
Artists Profiles
Michael Cook, Christian Thompson, Karla Dickens, Megan Cope, Natalie Harkin, rea, Ryan Presley, and Archie Moore.
Artworks:
Through My Eyes by Michael Cook
Fourteen Nations by Archie Moore
Debt by Ryan Presley
The Honey and the Bunny by Karla Dickens
The Blaktism by Megan Cope
Poles Apart - Tracking video by r e a
Dhagunyilangu (Brother) by Christian Thompson
The Book
Courting Blakness: Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University
Symposium
Courting Blakness turned the University of Queensland’s Great Court into a platform for a national symposium exploring the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the University as a prestigious knowledge institution.'
Videos
Videos featuring Archie Moore, Barbara Sullivan, Campbell Gray, Chelsea Bond, Fiona Foley, Fiona Nicoll, Kelly Greenop, Lilla Watson, Ryan Presley, Sally Butler, Sean Edgecomb and Zala Volcic.
Memories
Chelsea Bond
Greg Phillips
Essays
see contents below
Courting Blakness : Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University
Fiona Foley
(editor),
Louise Martin-Chew
(editor),
Fiona Jean Nicoll
(editor),
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2015
8903175
2015
selected work
criticism
'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. Fiona Foley and her team of eight Aboriginal artists aimed to challenge these concepts...'
