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Introducing Imagined Migrant Futures

We, Gabby Loo and Steven Finch, are the James Sykes Battye Creative Fellows for the State Library for 2018/2019. We are independent community artists working on a project called Imagined Migrant Futures. Imagined Migrant Futures is a community art and research project of exploring creative expression and personal migrant lineage in Western Australia, particularly Asian Migrant lineage. The project aims to explore migrant identity through a combination of shared personal truth and creative imagination and fantasy, in order to make space for more equitable, complete, and emotionally complex pictures of our shared local histories. On this blog we will be sharing creative self-expression and perspectives relating to Asian Migrant lineage, as well as documentation of our research process and creative events. We are currently focused on a group exhibition Seasons, Histories and Hopes: Imagined Migrant Futures, where we will collaborate on other artists with Asian Migrant lineage in WA. We will also be sharing links and scans from our research to make the history of the West Australian state accessible and widely known to the public in the hopes of giving the people who live here access to the stories of this place.  It’s a project of decolonialism and solidarity, of Seasons, Histories and Hopes, of the identities that will arrive in our futures.  We humbly acknowledge that this research project takes place on the lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people, and pay respects to any elders past and present. We also acknowledge that this research project encompasses the lands of the Ngaanyatjarra, Yamatji, Wonkai, Yawaru and Kimberley peoples. Sovereignty was never ceded, and we stand in solidarity with the struggles of First Nations people.

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Contacts Gabby Loo gabbylooworks@gmail.com www.gabbyloo.com  Steven Finch  sjfinchy@gmail.com  www.facebook.com/sjfinchy