Storytelling Liberation is a new video installation by Australian artist Alex Martinis Roe, and her first major exhibition in regional Victoria. Across five videos, each approximately 20 minutes in duration, the exhibition fosters international anti-colonial and feminist alliances by sharing tools for telling stories about social justice movements. For Martinis Roe, who has long focused on networks of solidarity, sharing methods of doing history has the potential to contribute to liberation; building what she calls ‘solidarity-in-difference’ and creating alliances among different positionalities.
Begun in 2022, Martinis Roe’s research led her to develop relationships with five international collaborators, including scholar, artist and activist Katerina Teaiwa of Banaban, I-Kiribati and African American heritage; ASKI Contemporary Greek Social History Archives in Athens; Zambian artist and art historian Gladys Kalichini; North American queer-feminist media producer, theorist and activist, Alexandra Juhasz; and Mexico City-based narrative practitioners and activists Andrea Ortega and Diana Betanzos. Learning from their varied practices, this exhibition defines and demonstrates a set of methods to research and tell stories about liberation movements.
Image: Alex Martinis Roe and Gladys Kalichini, Mnemonic Rituals, 4K video still, 2024.
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