Love Songs to End Colonization is an ongoing project by Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick that layers language, music, pop-culture, community, and the critiquing colonialism to help build a more meaningfully connected world.
Klehwetua Rodney Sayers’ “Tiickin, Ride the Lightning” is a vibrant visual pun that deftly integrates nuučaanuł and popular cultures. The serigraph was brought into the AGGV collection in 2018, not long after he and Emily Luce presented “Paƛšiʔaƛma (The Fire is Just Starting)” at the Gallery.
We had the pleasure of getting a first-hand look at Emilio Rojas’ process while recently hosting the artist for a residency at the AGGV. The first boundary is the flesh is a three-channel video performance installation by artist Emilio Rojas commissioned by the AGGV as part of the exhibition, “Architectures of Protection”, on view until October 26, 2025.
On November 23, 2024, Holly Timpener ascended and descended the staircase in the AGGV Spencer Mansion foyer for nearly 7 hours. Throughout the day, over 100 visitors witnessed Timpener’s intentional series of actions. Toby Lawrence, AGGV Curator of Contemporary Art, shares her thoughts on the performance and the experience it created within the Gallery space.
Holly Timpener will be spending an anticipated 7 hours in the Spencer Mansion foyer of the AGGV, activating the space with a “durational performance that resists normative spoon-fed ideas and perceptions of gender.”
By Regan Shrumm, AGGV Assistant Curator
During the COVID-19 pandemic, it can be hard to stay motivated on the things we use to enjoy, such as staying in touch with friends, making art, and working out.
By Haema Sivanesan, AGGV Curator
I was “back home” in Sydney in early March, just before the COVID-19 pandemic was announced, and was gratified -– more than 30 years later — to be attending the opening of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, titled Nirin. For the first time in its history, the Biennale was being curated by an Aboriginal artist, Brook Andrew, a Wiradjuri man, whose ancestral lands are in central New South Wales.