Artist talk: Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi - Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
tagatanuʻu (2019) by Léuli Eshrāghi, Sharjah Biennial 14 Beyond the Echo Chamber
Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
12:30–1:30pm EV 3.655
Dr. Léuli Eshrāghi, Sāmoan artist, curator and researcher, intervenes in display territories to centre Indigenous presence and power, sensual and spoken languages, and ceremonial-political practices. Through performance, moving image, writing and installation, ia engages with Indigenous possibility as haunted by ongoing militourist and missionary violences that erase faʻafafine-faʻatama from kinship structures. Ia contributes to growing international critical practice across the Great Ocean and North America through residencies, exhibitions, publications, teaching and rights advocacy. Recently, works have been presented in Journey beyond the Arrow - Sharjah Biennial 14, Te Whāinga: A Culture Lab on Civility - Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center/Auckland Museum, Seeing Voices - Monash University Museum of Art, and Deconstructing Comfort - Open Space Victoria. Writing has been published in the collections Permanent Recession: a Handbook on Art, Labour and Circumstance (2019), Sovereign Words: Indigenous Art, Curation and Criticism (2018), and Associations: Creative Practice and Research (2018).