"If NL is already woke then Australia it is even more. Especially Sydney: gender neutral toilets everywhere, honoring indigenous peoples (eg Aboriginal people) and realizing that we live on their soil and signs explaining that art from the past is now viewed differently" #ToponymEuropeNetherlands #ToponymOceaniaAustraliaNSWSydney #PhenomnGenderNeutralNeutrality #IdentityFirstNationsAboriginalAndTorresStraitIslanderPeoples

Marjetica Potrč, The House of Agreement Between Humans and the Earth (2022); The Time of Humans on the Soča River (2021); The Time on the Lachlan River (2021-22); The Rights of a River (2021); and The Life of the Lachlan River (2021). Courtesy the artist & Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin/Stockholm/Mexico City. Installation view, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, rīvus, 2022, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/sydney-biennial-2088115 And https://www.biennaleofsydney.art/participants/marjetica-potrc-ray-woods/

"Environmental hauntings The art of our past forms an ongoing dialogue with our present. As 19th-century artists painted landscapes transformed by agricultural economies, they imaged -- often unwittingly --traces of the immeasurable ecological damage of the colonial era, and the terrible facts of First Nations peoples' dispossession from Country. These paintings of Australia's natural environment reveal destructive patterns that have fed into our present. From poetic metaphors for the death of nature envisaged through local fauna, to images of savaged ecologies, these works contribute to a larger picture of incalculable loss. Paintings of dry, drought-stricken lands were once artistically celebrated as part of an Australian pastoral lexicon. Today, they reveal alarming visions of deforestation and harmful agricultural practices. Floods and droughts, once considered sublime markers of the forces of nature, have come to symbolise an escalating lament and battle for a threatened country. "

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Context #EpistemologyKnowledgesIndigenous ?