Archives can be harmful to the individuals and communities they represent. They are sites of bureaucratic violence where decisions are made, knowledge created, and power exerted in ways that affect the everyday lives of citizens. You’ll Know It When You Feel It is a socially engaged art project that seeks to resist bureaucratic representations of women whose lives intersect with the prison-industrial complex. Join artist Raphaela Rosella and several of her co-creators as they discuss what a co-created archive can do when creatively resisted by the people it seeks to represent, oppress, marginalise, or criminalise.
Raphaela Rosella and Nunjul Townsend ‘Nunjul’ 2012.
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.