THE ALTERNATIVE ARCHIVE
Mark Smith and Charmaine Green
“Archives aren’t just in the libraries you know. They’re everwhere.”
For Wajarri-Badimaya-Maori man Mark Smith, art making with his mother, Wajarri-Badimaya woman Dr Charmaine Green, means more than the picture at the end.
In this video, Smith interrogates Western modes of archival knowledge and highlights the importance of stories and information held by families and communities, and their transfer to subsequent generations.
Smith and Green’s artwork Unravelling Archives 1 is currently touring Western Australia in the exhibition The Alternative Archive.
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