Alex Moulis
贰尘补颈濒:听a.moulis@unsw.edu.au
厂耻辫别谤惫颈蝉辞谤蝉:听Astrid Lorange, Nicholas Apoifis
Alex is a PhD candidate and artist based on Gadigal Country. They are experimenting with research, moving image, photography and writing to examine ongoing processes of settler colonialism. Through a critical engagement with historical and visual archives, Alex is using found images, combining them with self-shot footage in the creation of a moving-image work. They are especially interested in representations of the beach and the desert, and metaphoric and metonymic associations of emptiness.
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In my practice-based research project I examine how embodiments of patriarchal white sovereignty on the beach entrench white possessive claims over Indigenous lands within this continent as well as extend these claims to Indigenous lands outside of it. Through a critical engagement with visual archives I analyse how different settler-colonial projects are affectively entangled through film and photographic representations of the beach and desert. I study how the rhetoric devices of metaphor and metonymy are deployed in these depictions, and question how the concept of terra nullius continues to echo in the settler imagination. Through my inquiry I hope to offer clues to ongoing anti-colonial struggles that attempt to disavow and unravel patriarchal white sovereignty in Australia and in Occupied Palestine.