Description
Bankstown Arts Centre is proud to present our next major exhibition - the 3rd Bankstown Biennale: Same Same/Different featuring the latest works from 17 prominent First Nations and artists of colour that reach for common ground, opening on Saturday 23 November 2024 and continues until Saturday 1 February 2025.
Featuring:
Claudia Nicholson
Edwina Green
Gary Lee
Gillian Kayrooz
Jason Wing
James Tylor
Jamie Eastwood
Jazz Money
Joan Ross
Karla Dickens
Kien Situ
Maddison Gibbs
Morgan Hogg
Ruth Ju-Shih Li
Salllvage
Wen Dung-Chuan
Wona Bae and Charlie Lawler
Bankstown Biennale returns for a thought provoking edition led by a First Nations and CaLD curatorium. Helmed by Coby Edgar, Jason Wing and Rachael Kiang, this iteration proposes equitable multiculturalism – enabling cultural connections that resist universalism. Same Same/Different underscores meaningful connections without erasing the distinct qualities of individual experiences. Instead of othering through assimilation or rejection, the phrase places an emphasis on common ground. The premise of respectful co-existence is underpinned by First Nations' worldviews of interconnectedness.
The exhibition title Same Same/Different draws from a common phrase used at the Top End of Australia by Asian and First Nations people alike describing similarities whilst acknowledging differences. Same Same/Different underscores meaningful connections without erasing the distinct qualities of individual experiences. Instead of othering through assimilation or rejection, the phrase places an emphasis on common ground. The premise of respectful co-existence is underpinned by First Nations' worldviews of interconnectedness and its paradigm of ontology, axiology and epistemology as antidote to contemporary philosophical differences.
This project is funded by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
