Kyle Archie Knight (AU/Wiradjuri)

Talk: The Queer Bogan Photobook with Kyle Archie Knight and Liss Fenwick

Image: Kyle Archie Knight, [Tom of Finland], from the series [Cruising for a bruising], 2022.

Image: Kyle Archie Knight, Tom of Finland, from the series Cruising for a bruising, 2022.

When

23 March

Saturday, 12:30-1pm (AEST)

Venue

Abbotsford Convent [i]
1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford
Tue – Fri, 10am – 2pm
Sat – Sun & Public Holidays, 10am – 4pm

Accessibility

Wheelchair access

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Auslan interpretation is available upon request. Please request via email to info@photo.org.au at least 7 days prior to the event.

Price

Free, bookings required

What is a Queer Bogan Photobook? Find out in a conversation between artists Kyle Archie Knight and Liss Fenwick.

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Speakers

  • Liss Fenwick (AU)

    Liss Fenwick is an artist using photography, video, sound and material processes. They work with visual languages to explore speculative outcomes of failing human-centeredness and eurocentrism.

    Liss is from Larrakia Country in the Northern Territory, and work between here and Naarm (VIC).

    They acknowledge the First Nations sovereign custodians of the lands and waters they live and work on and honour their elders, culture and connection to country. This includes the Larrakia people (NT) and the Eastern Kulin nations (VIC). First Nations sovereignty was never ceded.

  • Kyle Archie Knight (AU/Wiradjuri)

    Born 1999, Naarm (Melbourne), Australia
    Lives and works Naarm (Melbourne), Australia

    Kyle Archie Knight is a Wiradjuri queer photographic artist. His series Cruising for a Bruising (2022-ongoing) is a camp love letter to the Australian Suburbs. Growing up queer in outer-metropolitan Naarm (Melbourne), Knight found themselves drawn to explore the streets of their family neighbourhood. Their search for moments that capture the essence of suburbia results in a celebration of the surreal and the mundane, the humorous and the humdrum. Knight reconnects with past memories of estrangement, finding humour and delight in what was once alienating and suffocating.

Artists

Founding Partners
  • Bowness Family Foundation
  • Naomi Milgrom Foundation
Major Government Partners
  • City of Melbourne Arts Grants Program
Major Partners
  • Maddocks

PHOTO Australia respectfully acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands upon which we work and live, and the rich and diverse Indigenous cultures across what is now called Australia. For over 60,000 years, Indigenous arts and culture have thrived on this sacred land, and we honour Elders and cultural leaders past and present. This was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

01–24 March