Vitalstatistix acknowledges that we, and our home Waterside, are on Kaurna Country, its sovereignty never ceded. We acknowledge Kaurna people as the continuing custodians of the Adelaide Plains who have a spiritual relationship with this land. We respect their cultural authority. We pay our respect to Kaurna Elders, past, present and emerging, and through them to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Identify: What boxes do you tick?
Amala Groom with Willoh S.Weiland (NSW & TAS)
Identify: What boxes do you tick? is a multi-platform performative work that seeks to unpack the fixed and fluid notions between identity of the self and identity by interpolation.
Amala Groom is a Wiradyuri conceptual artist whose practice, as the performance of her cultural sovereignty, is informed and driven by First Nations epistemologies, ontologies and methodologies. Articulated across diverse media and informed by extensive archival, legislative and first-person research, Groom’s work is a form of passionate activism, presenting acute and incisive commentary on contemporary socio-political issues.
In this autobiographical work, the artist performs herself as well as a plethora of other characters as a historiography of her lived relationships and experiences. It extends a performative lecture delivered for Talk Contemporary at Sydney Contemporary in 2019 into a fully realised artistic work with artist, writer and curator Willoh S.Weiland, in their first collaboration.
Creative Team: Writer, director and performer – Amala Groom; Dramaturg – Willoh S.Weiland
This project is supported by ILBIJERRI Theatre Company’s Blakfulla Boost Quick Response Grant.
Image: Amala Groom
Published on
18 September
Live+Local
Adhocracy In Conversation panel: Art-making, activism and lived experience: the complexities and intersections
Friday September 25 at 8pm
Performance: Alter egos and performing ourselves, a work-in-progress double bill from What’s Eating Trestin Meacham by Tristan Meecham and Identify: What Boxes Do You Tick by Amala Groom.
Friday September 25 at 9pm
Residency Outcome
INTRODUCTION PARAGRPAH – see i spelt it worng
We are working – when we work that is what we are focused on. I just wanted to text this to you because i am running late for the gym. It is 10:24 and i am late. I have been working since 3am and i am stil late because i am working on moving through this project and juggling 1000 other projects and trying to look after myself by doing exercise. This paragraph is about this project. This project is about life. I. am . late again – looks like it’s backyard yoga. Again.
Its baout this:
IDENTIFY: WHAT BOXES DO YOU TICK?
Amala Groom with Willoh S.Weiland (NSW & TAS)
Identify: What boxes do you tick? is a multi-platform performative work that seeks to unpack the fixed and fluid notions between identity of the self and identity by interpolation.
The people are this Creative Team: Writer, director and performer – Amala Groom; Dramaturg – Willoh S.Weiland
And the premise is this: In this autobiographical work, the artist performs herself as well as a plethora of other characters as a historiography of her lived relationships and experiences. It extends a performative lecture delivered for Talk Contemporary at Sydney Contemporary in 2019 into a fully realised artistic work with artist, writer and curator Willoh S.Weiland, in their first collaboration.
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