Walking the Talk: A participatory residency

Walking the Talk is a participatory artist residency that aimed to provide an alternative position in an academic conference. Artists Maree Clarke, wãni LeFrère and Dr Megan Evans were commissioned to create work in response to the themes of the 2018 AAANZ conference. Through performance, video, installation and exhibition, they disrupted the spaces of the conference and explored collapsed histories of the site at RMIT where the conference was held. Maree Clarke and Megan Evans created performance works that interrupted the conference workshops and lectures, and wãni LeFrère created work titled Investigation into Memory that activated a lecture/meeting room to dispel the notion that black bodies are only ever supposed to be in these spaces to be explored, studied, investigated, invisibilized and silenced.