Decolonising Cook in Art, Performance and Text

In the grand narrative of white Australia, James Cook’s landing on Dharawal Country 250 years ago is heralded as the point at which the nation’s history ‘officially’ begins: the moment of ‘discovery’ and first step towards the foundation of a Greater Britain in a southern world.

Co-hosted by Flinders University Museum of Art and College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, and presented in partnership with University of Tasmania Cultural Collections, In the hold symposium brings leading indigenous and non-indigenous artists, curators, and academics into conversation to consider untold and alternative narratives of Cook, and interrogate his legacy as an idea, a symbol, and a myth that continues to grip the public imagination.

This event includes the Flinders University Ruth and Vincent Megaw Annual Lecture in Archaeology and Art to be presented by multidisciplinary Badtjala artist and academic Dr Fiona Foley.

See the full In the hold virtual symposium program here.