Next Wave: Archives are Hot! – Keynote with Jenna Lee - RMIT Garden Building, Melbourne
Tammy Wong Hulbert
In this talk, Jenna Lee will share how her art practice navigates and transforms the archives of language, history, and family. Through processes of deconstruction and reconstruction, Lee reimagines colonial texts and family narratives, drawing out what is lost, overlooked, or suppressed. Her work reconfigures books and language as living material, opening space for new readings of the past and possibilities for the future.
This talk will be co-chaired by Associate Professor Vicki Couzens of Yoonggama Ma Nga, RMIT's First Nations Knowledge Creation Transdisciplinary Research Cohort.
Jenna Lee
Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman, and KarraJarri woman of Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and Anglo-Australian ancestry, Jenna Lee explores language, materiality, and the transformation of inherited narratives. Intrigued by what is lost in translation, she captures the unseen spaces between words through installations, works on paper, sculpture, and multimedia. Her practice reveals the hidden forces shaping history and identity, drawing attention to what time erodes and what collective memory suppresses.