Enaction Plan – Reassembling the past
at National Library of Australia
Thursday, 26 February 2026 from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM (AUS Eastern Daylight Time) + Add to calendar26/02/2026 17:3026/02/2026 18:30Australia/SydneyEnaction Plan – Reassembling the pastEnaction Plan – Reassembling the past
Thursday, 26 February 2026 from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM (AUS Eastern Daylight Time)
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The Enaction Plan is a parallel process of mapping the pathway of utilising the collections of the National Library of Australia to strategically seek and resurface material aspects, 1800-1850, of the colonial past most impactful on Tasmanian Aboriginal people, whilst developing artwork responses to this journey to access and reconstruct history.
Enaction Plan consists of two interconnected actions. The ultimate is making new artworks as direct responses to NLA collections that informs the impact of British colonisation on First Peoples of Lutruwita/Tasmania from 1800-1850. The concurrent action to viewing historic material live for direct information/inspiration (particularly maps and pictures and manuscripts) is to map the process on an online dedicated website. This requires seeking, auditing, recovering relevant material in the NLA collections for and about Tasmanian Aboriginal people from the wreck of the Sydney Cove in Bass Strait in 1797 to the closure of Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment, Flinders Island, late 1847. This tracking of collections to reveal useful content for and about Aboriginal history, within material produced by and for colonists, will also be a case study of repositories facilitating First People's Truth Telling.
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