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Lentini, Damian (Hg.): Karrabing Film Collective. Wonderland. A Reader, Distanz Verlag, Berlin 2023, Ausst. Kat., ISBN 9783954765546

Table of Contents        ¦         Cover Text        ¦         Review⁄Abstract

Table of Contents

Andrea Lissoni: Foreword -8-

Photographic Impressions of Karrabing's Wonderland -17-

Artworks -56-

Damien Lentini: 'A Schoolhouse Made out of Film': The Karrabing Film Collective -82-

Elizabeth A. Povinelli: The Ancestral Present of Oceanic Illusions: Connected and Differentiated in Late Toxic Liberalism -96-

Vivian Ziherl: Karrabing Film Collective: Seizing the Means of Interpretation -108-

Kirsty Howey: Porous Jurisdictions: Sacrifice Zones and Environmental Law in the Northern Territory of Australia -120-

Richard Bell: Bell's Theorem: Aboriginal Art - It's a White Thing! -130-

Paola Balla: Across Australia, Artists are Disrupting the Colonial Mindset -148-

Growing up Karrabing: A conversation with Gavin Bianamu, Sheree Bianamu, Natasha Lewis Bigfoot, Ethan Jorrock, and Elizabeth Povinelli, Karrabing Film Collective -156-

Tess Lea and Elizabeth A. Povinelli: Karrabing: An Essay in Keywords -162-

May Adadol Ingawanij: Comedy of Entanglement: Karrabing Film Collective -172-

Elizabeth A. Povinelli and Rex Edmunds: A Conversation at Bamayak and Mabaluk, Part of the Coastal Lands of the Emmiyengal People -184-

Matariki Williams: Karrabing Film Collective Tackles the Cultural and Environmental Devastation of Settler Colonialism -192-

Biographies -200-

Selected Bibliography -208-

Colophon Exhibition -213-

Colophon Catalogue -216-

Cover Text

This Reader is published on the occasion of Karrabing Film Collective's exhibition at Haus der Kunst München. Currently numbering about thirty members, the Collective see their creative practice as a possible form of self-organization and grassroots resistance, in which artistic languages developed at a local level let the audience understand new forms of collective indigenous agency. In a similarly manner, this Reader eschews the usual singular authoritative tone and instead provides a myriad of voices and entrypoints to Karrabing's unique social, cultural, and historical oeuvre. Comprising a variety of texts, interviews and polemics, the publication explores what can be learnt about today's society from Karrabing's unique filmic and methodological language.