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In the hold

Decolonising Cook in contemporary Australian art

A Flinders University Museum of Art exhibition co-curated by Dr Ali Gumillya Baker and Fiona Salmon

2 June – 6 October 2020 

FUMA Gallery I Bedford Park

Online exhibition from 27 May 2020

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Christian Thompson, Museum of Others (Othering the Explorer, James Cook), 2016, c-type photograph on metallic paper, 120 x 120 cm, Collection of Flinders University Museum of Art 5808, © Christian Thompson / Courtesy Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin 2020

EXHIBITIONS

In the hold
Decolonising Cook in contemporary Australian art

A Flinders University Museum of Art exhibition co-curated by Dr Ali Gumillya Baker and Fiona Salmon

2 June – 6 October 2020 

Online exhibition from 27 May 2020

Flinders University Museum of Art
Flinders University I Sturt Road I  Bedford Park SA 5042

Located ground floor Social Sciences North building, Humanities Road adjacent carpark 5

Monday to Friday 10am – 5pm or by appointment
Thursday until 7pm  
Closed weekends and public holidays

FREE ENTRY

When Lieutenant James Cook set sail on the first of three voyages to the South Seas in 1768, he carried with him secret orders from the British Admiralty to seek the Great South Land and take possession of it, ‘in the Name of the King of Great Britain’. Nearly two years later, on 29 April 1770, he disembarked on Dharawal Country, also now known as Kurnell, on the southern headland of Botany Bay. In the grand narrative of white Australia, Cook’s landing is heralded as the point at which the nation’s history ‘officially’ begins: the moment of ‘discovery’ and first step towards the foundation of a Greater Britain in a Southern World.

Widely reproduced and circulated, this story of Cook is deeply etched in Australia’s collective consciousness. Yet its neat and decisive formulation of the nation’s genesis is problematic. On one hand, the continent had been long ‘discovered’ and inhabited by the time of Cook’s arrival. On the other, the Eurocentric and linear narrative of Australian history that starts with Cook, smooths over the complexities of the nation’s recent past, with the effect of silencing the perspectives and experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples before, during and after his expedition.

In the hold explores these themes by presenting works from the late twentieth century through to today, by visual artists – Indigenous and non-Indigenous – who challenge prevailing versions of Australian historiography. These artists defy traditional representations of Cook as a cultural and historical luminary and unsettle the reductive colonial discourse that follows Cook’s advent. Through their work, the artists give voice to Indigenous sovereignty, overturning the myth of peaceful British settlement and exposing the devastating and lasting consequences of colonialism. In ways that are brazen, complex and compelling, Cook is re-imagined, re-presented and re-cast as a contested figure – an anti-hero emblematic of dispossession and desecration.

Engaging in a dialogue concerning Australian symbolism and space, and the enduring grip of Cook in the nation’s collective imagination, In the hold counters the commemoration and memorialisation of his landing 250 years ago. The exhibition pays tribute instead to those who have enabled us to see Cook in an alternate light by deconstructing and disrupting forms of representation that venerate his achievement. In doing so, In the hold contemplates our collective responsibility to our histories and how we grapple with their meanings and effects in the present day.

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Flinders University Museum of Art acknowledges the generosity of the Art Gallery of South Australia and private collectors for loaning works to support the presentation of this exhibition.

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VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM

In the hold

Decolonising Cook in art,
performance and text

THURSDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2020
9.15 am - 4.30 pm

FREE LIVESTREAM EVENT  REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL

Hosted by Flinders University Museum of Art and College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in partnership with University of Tasmania Cultural Collections

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TALKS AND TOURS

Special guided tours

The recently launched Flinders University Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) calls for deeper engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures, and knowledges by non-Indigenous students and staff, and wider Flinders community. In the spirit of this ambition, Flinders University Museum of Art (FUMA) invites you on a special guided tour of our current exhibition: In the hold | Decolonising Cook in contemporary Australian art

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TALKING ART AND IDEAS

Tall Ships

Mirning artist and academic Dr Ali Gumillya Baker discusses her ‘Tall Ships’ artworks with Associate Professor Catherine Kevin reflecting on the memorialisation of Captain Cook 250 years since his landing on Dharawal Country, on what is now known as Kurnell on the southern headland of Botany Bay.

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