Yirramboi: Akin

A series of five images with red borders surrounding them on a black background

Blurred figures walk past three images on a digital screen — Photography by Kit Edwards

Images on a digital screen with a red border on a black hoarding — Photography by Kit Edwards

A person in a blue jacket with a grey beanie looks at images of artwork on a screen — Photography by Kit Edwards

Akin explores the world in which a First Nations queer artist navigates.

Three worlds intertwined, expression, identity and unbroken ancestral connections.

Akin is a collaborative piece from Yirramboi, led by Sherene Stewart in collaboration with the artists listed below. Sherene Stewart (b.1990) is a queer Taungurung & Filipino woman, director, curator and artist, living and working on Boonwurrung and Wurundjeri Woiwurrung Country.

Sherene creates and curates collaborative, anti-hierarchical approaches to the facilitation of artistic involvement. She prefaces equitable and commodious collaboration and inclusion for First Nations artists across a local, national and global scale.

Collaborators:

J-Maine Beezley (He/Him) Wakka Wakka/Kabi Kabi
Peter Waples-Crowe (He/Him) Ngarigo | On Boonwurrung Country
Stone Motherless Cold (She/They) Arrernte | On Wurundjeri Country
Sage Nokomis Wright (She/Her) Anishinaabe | On Boonwurrung Country
Daniel Temesgen (He/Him) Ethiopian | Photographer

The Metro Tunnel Creative Program has enhanced the existing digital place experience in Federation Square with the addition of two large screens integrated into the construction hoarding facing into the square. Digital totems are also installed in the hoarding, allowing useful information about project and traffic updates to be easily communicated with thousands of passers by.