Chris Ng: Where You From
West Space isss delighted to present a new body of work by Mparntwe/Alice Springs based artist Chris Ng, in partnership with Watch This Space (NT) and Situate (TAS).
"Where you from?" is a question often asked in Mparntwe. It is a colloquial phrase but given the context 鈥� spoken on land where local Indigenous cultures and languages are still commonly practiced 鈥� it can also hold deep ancestral meaning.
The population of Mparntwe is a melting pot of people, from Central, Eastern and Western Arrernte, Pitintjara, Walpiri and Luritja peoples, to non-Indigenous people "born and bred in Alice鈥�, to national and international migrants who have relocated for work opportunities and to escape city life.
Where you from? is born from the artist's experience of living in such a place, as a person of colour and first-generation 'Australian'. It is a project for the culturally ambiguous by the culturally ambiguous, for whom the term 鈥渃ulturally diverse鈥� is complex.
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West Space isss delighted to present a new body of work by Mparntwe/Alice Springs based artist Chris Ng, in partnership with Watch This Space (NT) and Situate (TAS).
"Where you from?" is a question often asked in Mparntwe. It is a colloquial phrase but given the context 鈥� spoken on land where local Indigenous cultures and languages are still commonly practiced 鈥� it can also hold deep ancestral meaning.
The population of Mparntwe is a melting pot of people, from Central, Eastern and Western Arrernte, Pitintjara, Walpiri and Luritja peoples, to non-Indigenous people "born and bred in Alice鈥�, to national and international migrants who have relocated for work opportunities and to escape city life.
Where you from? is born from the artist's experience of living in such a place, as a person of colour and first-generation 'Australian'. It is a project for the culturally ambiguous by the culturally ambiguous, for whom the term 鈥渃ulturally diverse鈥� is complex.
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