Power Reading Group: 65,000 Years

"The story is born in and of the break. The little black characters that make up the story are an artifice - speaking of but never becoming the art - superimposed onto the white screen, onto white paper, onto what looks like nothing but isn't. Coming from what has been called and made to seem like nothing - by the leitmotifs of settler colonialism: terra nullius, dispossession, assimilation, Native Title - this story is insistent, uneasy and provisional, lingering in the rupture that is the white page. The story is always in excess of this textual enclosure." 

-Tristen Harwood, "From landscape to landrelation"

Readings

From Professor Marcia Langton AO and Judith Ryan AM (eds.), 65,000 Years: A short history of Australian art (Thames and Hudson, 2025):

• Marcia Langton, "65,000 Years: a short history of Australian art"
• Tristan Harwood, "From landscape to landrelation"

The Power Institute Reading Group is open to all - to attend, just turn up!

For access to the readings, contact nicholas.croggon@sydney.edu.au