Cantchant was a response to the Cronulla Riots. On 11 December 2005, thousands converged on Cronulla beach as racial tensions and between white Australians and Middle-Eastern Australians flared. White rioters famously chanted ‘we grew here, you flew here’, claiming greater entitlement to the beach. Vernon Ah Kee’s Cantchant draws on the irony of White Australians claiming Indigenous status in the face the colonial genocide of First Nations peoples. The project encompassed a three-channel video, surfboards printed with Yidinji shield designs and portraits of the artist’s family, text works, and photographs. Cantchant was included in Once Removed, representing Australia at the 2009 Venice Biennale.