Julie Gough is a Trawlwoolway artist, writer and curator who lives in Hobart, Tasmania. Gough works across many mediums including video, sound and installation. Her work interrogates colonialism and its impact on Tasmania’s First Peoples. In works such as The Silenced Gough uncovers and re-presents subsumed and often conflicting histories. These works are often deeply personal, referring to her own and her family’s experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
“At least 185 Aboriginal children in Lutruwita / Van Diemen’s Land / Tasmania lived with colonists before the 1850s. The Silenced is an introduction to the task of finding these children within slim records. Reinstating them back on the Country they lived, isolated from their dead and exiled kin, amongst the colonists responsible, clearly reveals the genocidal intent of Empire.” – Julie Gough
Transcript
History is locked up tight here
Taken
Looking for stories
No answers here
Just secrets
Something might emerge
Surveillance
Hundreds of our children, stolen
Trespasser on my own country
I’m seeking the hidden figures of history
The cover ups and violence
It’s gone bad
The missing, the dead, the Ancestors
The waiting
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In ACMI's collection
On display until
16 February 2031
ACMI: Gallery 1
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
Z000184
Subject category
Digital Art
Curatorial section
The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Australia → MA-08. How We Tell Our Stories → MA-08-AV01
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Object Types
Artwork
Moving image file/Digital
Materials
Single-channel video, HDMI 4k video projection, 16:9, colour, sound, 6:18 min