International Women's Day at La Trobe Art Institute

This International Women’s Day, join La Trobe Art Institute exhibiting artist Alex Martinis Roe in conversation with international collaborators Katerina Teaiwa (FJ/KI/US/AU), Alexandra Juhasz (US) and Andrea Ortega (MX).

This conversation accompanies Martinis Roe’s exhibition Storytelling Liberation. Intended as invitation, resource and instrument, the exhibition seeks to foster international anti-colonial and feminist alliances by sharing methods for researching and telling stories about social justice movements. Read more about the exhibition.

Together Teaiwa, Ortega, Juhasz and Martinis Roe will discuss the process of making the exhibition and its central proposition, that Storytelling could become a new formation of knowledge and cultural practice. Operating at the intersection of contemporary art, ethnographic film, visual anthropology, experimental historiography, oral history, and Indigenous, anti-colonial and women’s storytelling cultures, this proposition emphasises the practice of learning from each other’s methods, brought together by shared purpose rather than kind. Such an anti-discipline could foster international dialogue, learning from minor knowledge and cultural traditions in a way that is not structured by Western imperialism, capitalism and binary thinking.

The conversation will be followed by light refreshments, and time to view the films in the exhibition.

Storytelling Liberation was made in collaboration with Katerina Teaiwa, ASKI Contemporary Greek Social History Archives, Gladys Kalichini, Alexandra Juhasz, Andrea Ortega and Diana Betanzos. 

Schedule
12:30 to 1:30 pm, Alex Martinis Roe in conversation with Katerina Teaiwa (in person), Alexandra Juhasz (remote) and Andrea Ortega (remote)
1:30 to 2:15 pm, Light refreshments
2:15 to 4 pm, Allocation of time to watch the five films in Storytelling Liberation, totalling 100 minutes.

Join the livestream here.

Note to those audiences travelling by public transport from Naarm/Melbourne, a V-line train departs Southern Cross Station at 10:06 am and arrives into Bendigo station at 11:57 am. A Melbourne-bound V-line departs Bendigo at 4:26 pm. For further details visit: https://www.vline.com.au/Timetables/Train-coach-timetables.

Storytelling Liberation was made in collaboration with Katerina Teaiwa, ASKI Contemporary Greek Social History Archives, Gladys Kalichini, Alexandra Juhasz, Andrea Ortega and Diana Betanzos.

The exhibition runs from 25 February to 11 May 2025.