The River’s Children

Presented a site-specific adaptation of this work by S.J. Norman, performed by Mykaela Saunders, Carly Sheppard and Naretha Williams

The River’s Children reflects on experiences 
of dispossession, displacement and servitude as well as personal and collective histories of violence and survival as they are entwined in the body, specifically in the bodies of Blak women. Repetitious acts of wringing, slapping and hanging interrupt a projected sequence of hand-written slides listing the names, dates and locations of every recorded massacre in Australian colonial history.

Presented as part of Temporal Proximities in the South Laundry, Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, 1 – 3 March 2019