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Platform Artists Group (Degraves Street Subway Melbourne) presents Opening Night: Friday 4 July 6-8pm Gubba World Koori Allsorts

SHARON WEST, CHARLIE O, JARROD ATKINSON, MANDI-BARTON-TRAVIS, ANDREW TRAVIS, CAROL WRIGHT

Opening Guest Speaker: Aunty Bunta Patten Gubbaworld is derived from the Koori name for white people. The exhibition parodies the notion of the museum diorama cabinet, and is inspired by past museum (mis)practices. The work is constructed in both a 2D and 3D format, and offers a pseudo-historical narrative of Victorian settler history. Drawing on references from the Aboriginal dioramas of Melbourne Museum and the Great Colonial Exhibitions of the late 1800s, the themes focus on settler and Indigenous contact, offering parables and inversions that satirise the ideas of the great Southern land, the Noble Savage and white colonisation. This work falls during NAIDOC, and we celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.Vitrine Continually Genuine TANIA SMITH & KUBOTA FUMIKAZU Continually Genuine is a performance project based on the artists’ process of applying for Australian residency. Kubota Fumikazu and Tania Smith were obligated to prove that their union was “genuine and continuing”. Recollections of tender moments were retold to a stranger in the sterile surrounds of a government office. The absurdity of this situation, and the broader issues in contemporary politics regarding immigration constitute the basis for the project. A special performance by the artists will take place on the opening night.

Sample 10th March 1960 VICTORIA STAMOS “The object acts as a trace of a life past as I never knew it, therefore reminding me of the passing of time and the trajectory my grandma’s life has taken since migrating to Australia.”

Majorca Life + Death DANIEL DORALL Daniel employs the ‘maze’ as the conceptual medium of his artwork. “It is in this space that the figures in my work seek some form of resolution. The theme of my work often suggests self-exploration, memory, mythical/historical enactments, allowing various layers of human dramas, foibles and strength, comedy and pathos, to take place.”