EXTRACTION: anti-colonial art practices, Indigenizing dominate culture - Pt. III
Tuesday, November 20 Timebuddy
United States: 2pm HST, 4pm PST, 5pm MST, 6pm CST, 7pm EST
Australia: Wednesday, November 21, 8am AWST, 11am AEDT
Aleshia Lonesdale
Cassandra Tytler
Perdita Phillips
This fall we are exploring through a series of dialogues, with our members and guest speakers, how a movement of Indigenizing dominate culture can encourage a greater balance between humans and the more-than-human world.
For this event we will hear from Cassandra Tytler, who will discuss her video work titled Shadow of Small Acts, exploring ecological interdependence, colonial legacy, and environmental change in Western Australia’s Jarrah Forest, and Perdita Phillips, who will discuss her work Wheatbelt Anticipatory Archive through modes of listenings/legacies/materialities/w(h)itcheries, uncovering the role of reparation and repair through personal, speculative and cultural archives.
Artist/Curator and Indigenous culture bearer Aleshia Lonesdale (Wiradjuri), will act as a respondent, and share works from her practice grounded in Culture and Country, then together we will explore how Indigenous knowledge can inform art practices, as well as contribute to a movement of Indigenizing dominate culture.
Each presenter will have approximately 15 minutes to discuss their work, then 15 minutes of response, with audience participation following.
Member respondent
Aleshia Lonesdale is a Visual Artist, Arts Worker and Curator based in regional New South Wales (NSW). As a proud Wiradjuri woman from Mudgee in Central Western NSW, Lonsdale creates work using a variety of materials including natural and found objects which endeavour to give voice to First Nations peoples. She sees the arts not only a vehicle for intergenerational cultural transmission but also as a tool which allows the audience to view the world through a First Nations lens. With a strong grounding in Culture and Country her works are influenced by the past, present and future experiences of First Nations Peoples with a particular focus on social, cultural, political and environmental issues. Lonsdale has over 20 years experience in the Arts and Culture sector and is actively engaged in various Aboriginal, Environmental and Arts Organisations both locally and across the region including the Aboriginal Regional Arts Alliance Inc (NSW), The CORRIDOR Project, Cementa Inc and the Three Rivers Regional Assembly. Lonsdale has experience in a number of roles including as an Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Officer, Community Development Officer, Facilitator and has been employed at Arts OutWest since 2011 as the Aboriginal Arts Development Officer. aleshialonsdale.com
Member presenters
Cassandra Tytler is an artist and researcher working across experimental moving image, performance, and site-based installation. Her practice examines power dynamics between humans and more-than-human ecologies in the context of the climate crisis. She explores feminist participatory art as a method for practising wellbeing beyond language, amplifying diverse community experiences and challenging dominant narratives of care and ecological responsibility. She is a Forrest Creative & Performance Fellow with the Centre for People, Place, and Planet, and a postdoctoral fellow in Wellbeing and Education at Edith Cowan University. Her work has been performed, exhibited, and screened nationally and internationally. www.cassandratytler.com
Dr. Perdita Phillips is a contemporary visual artist/researcher/writer living on unceded Whadjuk Noongar boodja who is interested in bringing nonhuman worlds into interaction with audiences. Trained in both the arts and sciences, Phillips has been exhibiting since 1991, with projects that incorporate walking, ecology and places to the physical environment. She spends time ‘listening’ and responding to landscapes, undertaking projects that incorporate walking, ecology and resensitisation to the physical environment. Her field practices, prints, drawings, books, sculptural installations and sound/video works all reflect deeper investigations into the underlying causes of the environmental crises that we are facing. Phillips’ works often enfold past and future conditions in complex ways. Recent work about archives, mining and landscapes was exhibited in the Walyaluyp Fremantle Print Award (2025) and the solo shows Collected Habitats (2025) and Rock Love (2024). Perdy lives near Dwertawirrinup in Walyalup/Fremantle. www.perditaphillips.com
This event is free for members + one guest. $5 for non-members. All participants MUST REGISTER.
