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Artworks by The Pacific Sisters - The Future & Other Fictions, ACMI, 2024, image by Eugene Hyland (36) copy

The Pacific Sisters on art, activism and upcycled expression

Meet the collective behind the costumes mixing Māori and Pacific heritage with rebellion.
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Multi-coloured astronaut surrounded by rainbow clouds - After The End - Liam Young and Natasha Wanganeen
Cienan Muir

A Future That Remembers

Lost diary pages from a First Nations time traveler reveal a future where Country breathes, technology listens and the past is anything but gone.
Still from Highway Improvements Australia, 1965
ACMI

What lies beneath Australia's roads?

Mid 20th century film travelogues embedded machinery, fossil fuels and battles against the landscape deep within the colonial psyche.

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