ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

This Zine and research was created on unceded Country.

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on whose country we live and work, the Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation (Narrm) and pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded. To find out more about the Traditional Owners of the land on which you live, see: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia.

Furthermore, we recognise that the storytelling, community, creativity and resistance that were the anchor points of this program has taken place on this land for tens of thousands of years. First Nations people are the oldest storytellers on this land and we have so much to learn from their stories. We have so much to unlearn about the colonial stories we have been told about this land. There are stories poured into every rock, tree and step of this beautiful country that we have the immense privilege to walk upon.

We are critically reflecting on our roles as storytellers, creatives, resistors and what it means and looks like to be in solidarity with First Nations people on this land. As settlers, we continue to move toward understanding our call to action and our positionality and privilege.

Contents

THE JOURNEY

THE RESEARCH PROJECT

Parminder Kaur Bhandal

Calev

Olivia Chung charli gayheart

Oscar Kearsley

Kirra

Lily Thủy Linh Nguyen

Summaiya R.

蓉Sylvia

THE ARTISTS: ... and their work.

R E S O N A N C E

/ ’ r ɛ z ( ə ) n ə n s / | r e s · o · n a n c e n o u n

T h e q u a l i t y i n s o u n d o f b e i n g d e e p , f u l l a n d r e v e r b e r a t i n g .

T h e p o w e r t o e v o k e i m a g e s , m e m o r i e s a n d e m o t i o n .

A q u a l i t y o f e v o k i n g a r e s p o n s e .

A q u a l i t y o f i m p a r t e d v o i c e d s o u n d s .

In imagining this project, we realised that the many traditional forms of research - reports, papers, books and presentations, limit how far voices can travel and who hears them.