GPG VIRTUAL
In continuing to support the artistic initiatives of University of Melbourne students, the George Paton Gallery is hosting a series of online projects, including Instagram takeovers, screen-based exhibitions, interviews, video works and more. If you are interested in contributing to GPG Virtual please contact us at gpg@union.unimelb.edu.au
2020 GPGvirtual projects are in the process of being moved to our archives at https://umsu.unimelb.edu.au/studentlife/gallery/archives/
BEYOND THE REHEARSAL ROOM
Set design, costume design and more
2020 | VIDEO & SOUND
'Transcient Lapses' by Fiona Martin
2020 | VIDEO
'2020' by Sixia Hu
2020 | EXHIBITION | Baedhaang
Muskaan Hakhu
2020 |INTERVIEW
Anya Wong and Nicole Schwartz
2020 | VIDEO
'a radius of small' by Bethany Joyce
2020 | EXHIBITION | NWEB
'images for Cognition', 2020
2020 | VIDEO
'The Objet a and why you should' by Jen Velander
![UMSU will be closed today, but we won't be celebrating anything.
Statement from @umsuindigenous:
TW/CW: mentions of Indigenous Death, Stolen Generations, Racism and Australia Day
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"Leading up to January 26, we see the stores start to fill with all sorts of unnecessarily branded Australian merchandise. Thongs, bikinis, plastic flags, cups, BBQ accessories are all things we frantically try to avert our eyes from, while in our local shopping centres.
It’s a cruel reminder that the day is almost here.
Invasion Day marks a pain that will never really leave us, it is a reminder of the slaughters that have been deliberately left out of the pages of history books. It is a reminder to the people that will never know where they came from because their grandparents and ancestors were stolen from the arms of their parents. It is a reminder that the nation that we are now citizens of refuses to acknowledge or repent for the racialised actions of its past and present.
In a nation that insists it is built upon ideals of mateship and diversity, it becomes increasingly clear that those notions are only bestowed upon the ‘good Australian’. The one that believes in the stories of the underdog and plight of the convict. Those that celebrate their ancestors coming to a strange new land in search of wealth and opportunity.
I am not a ‘good Australian’, nor do I strive to be one. In order to fulfil this stereotype, you must turn a blind eye to violence and injustice and hold an unquestionable belief in the goodwill of the government. You are an active participant in ‘fun-loving Aussie racism’..."
Read the full statement on our Facebook page.
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