15/04/2025
A panel discussion on how artists and curators today are tackling the medium of history as an ethical project.
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Between 2005 and 2019, Hong Kong-born Australian artist John Young Zerunge created a body of work called ‘The History Projects’, exploring diasporic memory, transcultural identity, and what Young has described as an ‘ethical responsibility’ towards the past. This panel builds on themes from a major new publication discussing this cycle of works, The History Projects, edited by Olivier Krischer and newly published by the Power Institute.
John and Olivier will be joined by esteemed curator and writer, Mikala Tai, one of the book’s contributors, alongside artist Jenna Lee, who will participate in “And still I rise”, at the AGNSW later this year. Together they will discuss how artists and curators today are tackling the medium of history as an ethical project, navigating contentious and contending histories, and how art can still foster new forms of subjectivity and community outside the stubbornly narrow narratives of Australia's settler colonial history.
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Image: Installation of John Young, OPEN MONUMENT, 2015, Permanent architectural monument, Len T Fraser Reserve, Ballarat.
