Simulacrum 

Video still of performance, 2015

 

 

Everyday policies and institutions associated with white society, render a scrutinized measurement of what constitutes 'indian-ness' for Aboriginal people. Although, as Amelia Jones points out, 'white culture lacks self-knowledge (or societal understanding) of [its] racial identification'(91), inherently limiting any opportunity for alter(native) ways of seeing/witnessing within the colonizer/Aboriginal relationship. Using the stereotypical and immediate signifier associated with Indigenous identity via braided hair, my live, music-based performance in collaboration with Diana Hanitzsch, aims to outline the everyday struggle of confronting misrepresentation and the internal process of self-representation associated with Aboriginal identity.

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