Activist Punks 70s & 80s Australia

eX de Medici / Australia b.1959 / You Can Tell from the Smell that There’s Nothing Going on ’Round Here 2011-12 / Watercolour and gold leaf on paper / 114 x 131cm / Private collection, Melbourne / © eX de Medici

eX de Medici / Australia b.1959 / You Can Tell from the Smell that There’s Nothing Going on ’Round Here 2011-12 / Watercolour and gold leaf on paper / 114 x 131cm / Private collection, Melbourne / © eX de Medici / View full image

When

6.00 – 7.00 pm, Wed 19 Jul 2023

Where

Gallery of Modern Art & River Room (Sue and Brian King River Room)

Accessibility

  • Auslan Interpreted
  • Wheelchair Accessible

About

Relive the unique melting pot that was activism and punk creativity in 1970s and 80s, at this after-hours talk held in the heart of ’eX de Medici: Beautiful Wickedness’.

Join guests as they recount what it was like to work and fight for justice in a time where freedom of identity and expression were not a right granted to all.

Speakers:

  • Andrew Stafford – author of Pig City, musical and political journalist
  • Gordon Hookey – artist, Waanyi people
  • Anne Jones – writer, editor
  • Host: John Willsteed – musician, academic, member of the Go-Betweens

Auslan interpreted.