Event Dominique Chen: Making Space

Dominique Chen: Making Space

Talk

21 October 2023
11.00AM–12.00PM

Artist and researcher Dominique Chen (Gamilaroi) discusses making space for cultural ethics within institutional frameworks, and creative and collective futures.

 

COVID-19 Advice

The IMA strongly encourages mask-wearing onsite in the galleries and for events to keep our community safe. If you are displaying symptoms of COVID-19 or are feeling unwell, please stay home. ⁠

 

Accessibility

We are committed to making the IMA accessible to people of all abilities, their families, and carers, as well as visitors of different ages and different backgrounds.

The gallery entrance is on the ground floor of the Judith Wright Arts Centre, on Berwick Street. There is wheelchair access and an accessible toilet with baby changing facilities also located on the ground floor, and we welcome guide and support dogs.

If you plan to attend this event and have specific support needs we can accommodate, please contact engagement@ima.org.au, call (07) 3252 5750, or ask our friendly staff on-site. Read our access information for visitors here.

Guest Info
  • Dominique Chen is a Gamilaroi woman and interdisciplinary researcher living on Jinibara Country in Southeast Queensland. She lectures within the Bachelor of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art, Griffith University, and is undertaking PhD research at the University of Technology Sydney in the area of relational creative practice and urban-based Aboriginal food and medicine growing. She is mother, artist, writer, and maker, and is passionate about the role of creative practice in making positive contributions to community, culture, and Country. She is a co-founder of Yuruwan, an Aboriginal-run not-for-profit supporting learning opportunities for culturally centred, urban-based food and medicine growing, by and for Aboriginal people.

Courtesy of Dominique Chen.

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