Workshop with exhibiting artist Alex Martinis Roe

Anyone with an interest in documenting, archiving, theorising or telling stories about social justice movements is invited to join exhibiting artist Alex Martinis Roe in a special one-day workshop at La Trobe Art Institute.

In this workshop, Alex will engage participants in the collaborative working process of the Storytelling Liberation project. Participants will learn about each other’s approach to telling stories about social justice movements, and together identify how such approaches can be made accessible to others.

If you are interested in joining the workshop, please email Curator Amelia Wallin (A.Wallin@latrobe.edu.au) by May 3 with an example of something you have been working on that could be shared during the workshop. Participants will be asked to do some preparation in advance of the workshop and a light lunch will be provided.

This workshop is for practitioners and students from any occupation, field, discipline or political commitment.

About Storytelling Liberation

Intended as invitation, resource and instrument, the Storytelling Liberation project seeks to foster international anti-colonial and feminist alliances by sharing tools for telling stories about social justice movements. Storytelling Liberation was made in collaboration with Katerina Teaiwa, ASKI Contemporary Greek Social History Archives, Gladys Kalichini, Alexandra Juhasz, Andrea Ortega and Diana Betanzos.

Exhibition continues at La Trobe Art Institute until May 11 2025.

About Alex Martinis Roe

Alex Martinis Roe is an artist researching genealogies of feminist political practices of difference through film installation, publications and dialogic events. Recently she has exhibited at Mimosa House, London (2024); Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (solo, 2021–22); Seoul Museum of Art (2021–2022); Albertinum Museum, Dresden (2020–2021); GfZK – Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig (solo, 2018), Frac Lorraine, Metz (2018). Her project To Become Two (2014–2018) was co-commissioned as a series of solo exhibitions by If I Can’t Dance (Amsterdam), Casco Art Institute (Utrecht), The Showroom (London) and ar/ge kunst (Bolzano) and has also been exhibited in full at Badischer Kunstverein (Karlsruhe), Samstag Museum (Adelaide) and Taxispalais – Kunsthalle Tirol (Innsbruck). In 2018, To Become Two was presented at Centre George Pompidou and was the recipient of the Future of Europe Art Prize. Archive Books published her monograph To Become Two: Propositions for Feminist Collective Practice. Alex was a fellow (2013–2016) of the University of the Arts Berlin and holds a PhD from Monash University, Australia. She is Senior Lecturer in Art and Head of Drawing and Printmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.