TJ Cuthand and Seba Calfuqueo
  • TJ Cuthand 'Reclamation' 2017.

  • TJ Cuthand "Reclamation" 2017

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TJ Cuthand and Seba Calfuqueo

12 April–11 July 202512 Apr–11 Jul 2025

To accompany their show You Are Here Too, Kink chose two videos for the Screening Room.

Since 1995, TJ Cuthand (aka Theo Jean Cuthand) has been making videos about sexuality, madness, queer identity and love, and Indigeneity. A member of Little Pine First Nation and a trans man of Plains Cree and Scotts descent, he coined the term ‘Indigequeer’ in 2004. He said ‘I think I used it because some LGBTQ Indigenous people don’t feel as comfortable with the two-spirit title because it implies some dual gender stuff, which some people just don’t feel describes their identity.’ His video Reclamation (2017) is a documentary-style imagining of a post-dystopian future in Canada. After white people leave Earth en masse for Mars, the Indigenous people left behind contemplate their place in healing the world and what happens next.

Seba Calfuqueo engages their Mapuche ancestry, often addressing in a militant way the discrimination the artist faces in daily life for belonging to an Indigenous group, and, beyond that, for not fitting into dominant heteronormative narratives. You Will Never Be a Weye (2015) records a performance in which Calfuqueo reveals how the history of the Machi Weyes (individuals who do not conform to gender binarism) was erased as a result of Catholic indoctrination imposed by colonisation and the politics of the Chilean state. 

Artists
Curated By
  • Kink
Curator Bio

Kink is a cross-disciplinary working group researching and formalising a history of queer Australian art. It comprises art historian Amelia Barikin, artist and facilitator Courtney Coombs, artist and researcher Callum McGrath, artist and educator Spiros Panigirakis, and art historian and curator Tim Riley Walsh. Its members are based in Meanjin/Brisbane, Naarm/Melbourne, and Gadigal/Sydney. Kink are adjunct curators at the Institute of Modern Art.


The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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