Collective Movements Publisher / Canongate from Eames chairs to Poul

from Eames chairs to Poul Henningsen lamps and George Nelson clocks

‘Our language connects us to our people and our physical world

film … no matter what the medium

the catalogue includes a collectively authored text by the exhibition’s curators alongside two conversational texts by guest writers David Garneau and Kimberley Moulton

with each traditional shade illustrated by one or more items - ranging from 16th-century kimonos to contemporary chairs

Collective Movements Publisher / Canongate from Eames chairs to PoulCollective Movements is a wide ranging project focusing on the work of historic and contemporary First Nations creative practitioners and community groups in south eastern Australia that recognises collectivity as integral to Indigenous knowledges and ways of being. This project and publication begins from a desire to make a language and terminology beyond Western art concepts of collaboration and collectivism more visible, and to better describe and