'New Reality' / MaggZ
Be immersed in New Reality; a futurist, multi-sensory experience by Chinese-born, Naarm-based artist MaggZ. Enter the Long Room and encounter three distinct realms governed by universes of sight, sound, and expectation.
MaggZ honours their 昆明 (Kunming),云南 (Yunnan) roots through this immersive solo performance using lighting, sound, textile, installation and movement. New Reality queers the minority Chinese experience and celebrates MaggZ’s journey as a first-generation migrant and street-born movement artist.
New Reality captures the voyage to adulthood; challenges and cherishes the past and future; and carves the moments of our present. New Reality can be our reality. We welcome you to New Reality and invite you to witness this journey unfold.
Tickets for ‘New Reality’ at the Immigration Museum - Monday November 6th
Photography by Jackie Dixon (@hellojackiedixon)
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Here in ‘Australia’, Indigenous people are the most incarcerated population on Earth. Countless lives have been murdered by white police, white government policies and this country’s white history, institutionalised colonialism and ongoing racial oppression. Racial injustice continues today under the phoney, self-congratulatory politics of ‘Reconciliation’ and the notion that colonialism is something that must be denied and forgotten, an uncomfortable artefact of the past.
Feeling guilty is not enough. We must take action, pay the rent, educate ourselves and acknowledge that empathy and sorrow for past actions is insufficient if this does nothing to prevent our current reality from extending into the future.
Please consider making donations to the following organisations (the list is so small and the work to be done is so large, do your research to find more grassroots, Indigenous-lead community organisations):
Indigenous Social Justice Association - fighting to stop Indigenous deaths in custody