In this chapter, Worimi filmmaker, educator and curator Genevieve Grieves discusses decolonising as an ongoing process that must be undertaken with shared leadership of First Peoples. Grieves begins by recounting her own personal journey as an arts worker, including moving to Naarm/Melbourne for her first professional role at the Koorie Heritage Trust, where she experienced the guidance of cultural Elders. This experience paved the way for a professional practice grounded in First Nations ways of being, doing and knowing. She then turns to critically explore the role of language in decolonising agendas, and the importance of matching rhetoric with action—for example, the need for reparations and justice for First Peoples, alongside representation and cultural change. Emphasising colonisation as an ongoing process and system that must be grappled with critically and reflectively, she turns from decolonising to indigenising to argue that challenging colonial systems require First Nations leadership—and a broad willingness to enact change.

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First Peoples First: Decolonising Action in the Arts and Cultural Sector in Australia

  • Genevieve Grieves

摘要

In this chapter, Worimi filmmaker, educator and curator Genevieve Grieves discusses decolonising as an ongoing process that must be undertaken with shared leadership of First Peoples. Grieves begins by recounting her own personal journey as an arts worker, including moving to Naarm/Melbourne for her first professional role at the Koorie Heritage Trust, where she experienced the guidance of cultural Elders. This experience paved the way for a professional practice grounded in First Nations ways of being, doing and knowing. She then turns to critically explore the role of language in decolonising agendas, and the importance of matching rhetoric with action—for example, the need for reparations and justice for First Peoples, alongside representation and cultural change. Emphasising colonisation as an ongoing process and system that must be grappled with critically and reflectively, she turns from decolonising to indigenising to argue that challenging colonial systems require First Nations leadership—and a broad willingness to enact change.