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Issue 44:3 | Warltati / Summer 2024
Emmaline Zanelli, I take care of what's mine, 2023–24, production video still (detail) by cinematographer Liam Somerville. Commissioned by the Adelaide Film Festival and Samstag Museum's 2022 Expand Moving Image Lab. Courtesy the artist.
Emmaline Zanelli, I take care of what's mine, 2023–24, production video still (detail) by cinematographer Liam Somerville. Commissioned by the Adelaide Film Festival and Samstag Museum's 2022 Expand Moving Image Lab. Courtesy the artist.
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compost: compose
Organic matter turns into compost when it breaks down.
After brewing my cup of tea, I place wet tea leaves into my kitchen’s compost bin along with other food scraps, which I later add to my garden’s compost.
Compost over compost.
Time over time.
I write these words at exactly one year of ongoing brutality and genocide in Gaza, during the 76th year of Zionist occupation of Palestine.
I can’t help but think of what else belongs in a compost bin.
Zionism.
Militarism.
Capitalism.
Colonialism.
Extractivism.
Expansionism.
What other words that end with ‘ism’?
Which outdated world views, ideologies, systems and structures belong in a compost bin? What skeletons and bones need to break down to birth something new?
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Installation view: Radical Textiles, 2024, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Photo: Saul Steed
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Installation view: Radical Textiles, 2024, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Photo: Saul Steed
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