Podcast appearances and mentions of paola balla

Guest artist PAOLA BALLA joins Jillian Knipe for this special edition of ART FICTIONS | Culture Exchange which is part of the UK/Australia Season, a partnership between the British Council and the Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Paola and I discuss colonisation in a place widely known as Australia, and its corresponding cost to herself, her family and her extensively long ancestral lineage, via poet Ellen van Neerven's 'Comfort Food' published in 2016. We dive into Ellen's magically rich text as she describes the simplest of dishes alongside racist cruelty. All with the upper hand of calm reflection and a delicious dollop of sensuality. Paola is extremely generous in sharing her stories of Indigenous hardship which she relays with clarity, humour and warmth . Our conversation expands on Paola's art practice which includes sculptural installation, curation and academia. We hear of the nature of bush dying and the shocking reality of forced encampment of her people, which continued into recent history. Paola shares her take on the mythological Mok Mok with her wild hair and no underwear, as she serves up well meaning treats in track pants and stilettos.    PAOLA BALLA paolaballa.art instagram paola_balla EXHIBITIONS  'Treaty' 2021 'Wilam Biik' 2021 WORKS 'Banner Time' 2021 'Murrup (Ghost) Weaving in Rosie Kuka Lar (Grandmother's Camp)' 2021 'Unconditional Love Space' 2020 BOOKS & WRITERS Ellen van Neerven 'Comfort Food'  ARTISTS Vernon Ah Kee Madeleine Kelly 'Spectra of Birds' 2014-2015      

After 40+ years in print, Artlink proudly delivers its annual Artlink Indigenous issue, Visualising Sovereignty, edited by Paola Balla and Ali Gumillya Baker. Now in its eleventh year, this platform brings together leading First Nations scholars, artists and curators from across the country who have responded critically and candidly to the political, social and cultural issues of the moment. Come and join Artlink Editor Una Rey, and Naarm-based First Nations writers as they discuss the magazine's current issue's theme, the editorial process and ideas addressed by the writers: + Community-focused, Indigenous-led curatorial practice + Blak architecture, public art and placemaking + Educating contemporary art audiences Featuring speakers Hayley Millar Baker and Kimberley Moulton. This talk was presented as part of UNTOLD: Marking Life, Indigenous reflections on continuing/maintaining/living rituals presented by Agency Projects.

Counter-monuments: Indigenous settler relations in Australian contemporary art and memorial practices Session One: Wednesday 17 March 2021 Chair: Associate Professor Sana Nakata, co-founder of the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration, University of Melbourne: SPEAKERS: Genevieve Grieves and Dr Amy Spiers: Counter-monuments: An introduction Dr Julie Gough: MISSING or DEAD: reinstating the hidden figures of history Paola Balla and Dr Clare Land, with Kate Golding: Indigenous perspectives on Captain Cook: this full agency, this decolonised spirit MORE INFO: https://acca.melbourne/counter-monuments-indigenous-settler-relations-in-australian-contemporary-art-and-memorial-practices Genevieve Grieves and Dr Amy Spiers have developed this program in partnership with the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration (ISRC), University of Melbourne, Contemporary Art and Social Transformation (CAST), RMIT, and with assistance from the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. ACCA is pleased to host this symposium as part of the 2020-22 research, publication and exhibition project 'Who’s Afraid of Public Space?'

This week we listen to a panel discussion hosted by Allies Decolonising.The event, Sovereignty, Treaty and Constitutional Recognition brought together Aboriginal community members to discuss the treaty process and Aboriginal sovereignty. PanelistsLidia Thorpe is a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, living on Wurundjeri country in Melbourne’s north. She is a community worker, mother and grandmother. Lidia has spent decades fighting for Aboriginal rights and the environment, including fighting to successfully save a million-year-old gorge in Nowa Nowa, East Gippsland and becoming the first Aboriginal woman to serve in the Victorian Parliament.Crystal McKinnon is a Yamatji woman who lives and works on Kulin country. She has worked at many universities and Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, and she is currently working at RMIT as a Vice Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellow. In one of her projects at RMIT, Crystal is working with a team on an Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous Project named: Indigenous Leaders: Lawful Relations from Encounter to Treaty. Her work has looked at concepts of Indigenous sovereignty, Indigenous social movements and protest, and Indigenous resistance through the use of the creative arts, including music and literature.Paola Balla is a Wemba-Wemba & Gunditjmara woman living on Kulin Country. She’s worked in Koorie community arts as an artist & curator & in education at Moondani Balluk Indigenous Academic Centre at Vic Uni & the Indigenous Arts and Cultural Program at Footscray Community Arts Centre. Her work focuses on self-determination & sovereignty within the arts & is a member of the Blak Brow Collective who edited Blak Brow for the Lifted Brow. Her PhD research focuses on Indigenous women’s disruptions & resistance through art. Her work is based on sovereignty, matriarchy & First Nations ways.Event ModeratorClare Land is a historian at Moondani Balluk at Vic Uni, and author of the book Decolonizing Solidarity which outlines how people like her might emerge towards being less racist, and how she can better use privileges she has access to in support of Aboriginal struggles. Her knowledge and politics have been shaped in particular by Gary Foley, Dr Uncle Wayne Atkinson, and by the Thorpe family. 

This week on Breakfasters, the team chat about nerd parties; boxer and bronze world medal holder, Kristy Harris drops by the studio, Triple R regular Michael Harden talks about the best and worst foods of 2018; editor Paola Balla chats about The Lifted Brow new issue titled “Black Brow”; and Bob Brown and Paul Thomas come onto the show to chat about their latest book “Green Nomads: Wild Places”.

How can mockery and humour be used as a tool for survival? How do you write yourself into a history that has always favoured men? In this conversation Tai Snaith and Paola Balla go on a raucous storytelling romp through Paola’s vibrant past, recounting her ‘triple-whammy of Otherness’ as a young Wemba Wemba/Gunditjmara woman, with an Italian dad and a Chinese surname in Echuca/Moama in the '80s. Paola talks about the strong influence of indigenous women’s voices like Aunty Marge Tucker, and the links to the incredibly powerful artwork she continues to make around this to this day. Additional resources: https://www.facebook.com/WARcollective/ https://www.vic.gov.au/aboriginalvictoria/community-engagement/leadership-programs/aboriginal-honour-roll/2013-victorian-aboriginal-honour-roll/margaret-tucker-mbe-c.html http://www.fnawn.com.au/the-bennelong-letter-voice-of-a-wangal-diplomat/ https://www.djukimala.com/ https://www.naidoc.org.au/news/2018-national-naidoc-theme-announced https://www.naidoc.org.au/about/history https://acca.melbourne/exhibition/sovereignty/ http://www.miriamrosefoundation.org.au/about-us/who-miriamrose

How can mockery and humour be used as a tool for survival? How do you write yourself into a history that has always favoured men?In this conversation Tai and Paola go on a raucous storytelling romp through Paola's vibrant past, recounting her ‘triple-whammy of Otherness' as a young Wemba Wemba/Gunditjmara woman, with an Italian dad and a Chinese surname in Echuca/Moama in the '80s. Paola talks about the strong influence of indigenous women's voices like Aunty Marge Tucker, and the links to the incredibly powerful artwork she continues to make around this to this day.Links, more episodes, and information about A World of One's Own, at taisnaith.com/podcastAudio production: Bec FaryTheme music: ‘End of the Day' by Phia www.listentophia.com

Wednesday 29th of August 2018On the show: Leyla and Will7:00am - Acknowledgement of Country7:05am - Alternative News; Government corruption, Duttons' penchant for European au pairs and the Guardians' 'Deaths Inside' database.7:13​am - Deconolising Stories (Part One); Paola Balla is an artist, curator, academic, and cultural producer– having developed Footscray Community Arts Centre’s first Indigenous Arts and Cultural program, and as a Senior Curator in First Peoples exhibition, Melbourne Museum. A Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara woman she is based at Moondani Balluk Indigenous Academic Centre, Victoria University as a lecturer and PhD candidate focussed on Aboriginal women's art and practices of resistance.7:​35am - Discussions with Brigid from ANTaR Victoria (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation) on grassroots justice campaigning and their guide to the policies that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the 2018 Victorian election.7.45am - Kate Tempest with Europe is Lost(link is external)7.49am - Jenny Weber, Campaign Manager from The Bob Brown Foundation expresses despair at the appointment of MP Melissa Price as the Morrison Government's Minister for the Environment. She also discusses upcoming direct action in Tarkine Forest on September 15th. For more infromation see their website, here.8:01am - Deconolising Stories (Part Two); Astrid Mbani is a Writer, Poet, Spoken Word Artist, Performer, Lover of People, Authentic Relationship Builder, Edifier, Equipper and Lifelong student, who's excited to see what other roles God develops in her. Born in South Africa her mother says she came in with a bang, and she wants to exit with one; having made her ancestors and her future generations proud.8.12am - Artist Tim Humphrey joins us in studio to talk about Arts House Melbourne's Refuge project. We contemplate existential risks, grief, survival and who gets the vaccine? Refuge is open from Wednesday 29th of August until Saturday the 1st of September; for a full run down of their events see their website.

This week Kulja and Dylan speak with Dr. Dave Nichols about digital groups dedicated to preserving and sharing local history.Then, Heather Holst from Launch Housing comes on the show to talk about the latest Melbourne street count and issues affecting the homeless.Finally, artist and author, Paola Balla comes on the show with her son Katen and daughter, Rosie to talk about NAIDOC day and her new exhibitionNext Matriarchat Koorie Heritage Trust

This is the third symposium in ACCA's 'Unfinished Conversations' symposium series. Chaired by Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara artist, curator, academic and Co-Curator of Unfinished Business, Paola Balla, with guest panellists Maddee Clark, Neika Lehman, Kate Just, Nina Lykke, this panel discussion set out to identify and question the challenges of blak feminism and intersectionality today in Australia and more widely. Recorded on Wednesday 7 March 2018.

In Episode 4, Drew Pettifer speaks to artist Eugenia Lim, academic Carolyn D’Cruz and curator Paola Balla about the complexities of intersectional feminism. Eugenia Lim works across video, performance and installation. She is interested in how nationalism and stereotypes are formed, inventing personas to explore the tensions between alienation and belonging in a globalised world. Listen now: bit.ly/fieldwork_eugenialim More info: http://fieldworkpodcast.com.au/ Subscribe via Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. FIELD WORK is produced by Channon Goodwin, Drew Pettifer, and supported by Bus Projects with funding from Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. Audio production, editing and mixing by Bec Fary. FIELD WORK theme music is by Martin King and graphic design is by Lachlan Siu.

'Diversity' has become a popular talking point across all sectors of work, and diversity panels are regular fixtures of conferences, festivals and corporate events. But once the talk is done, and the warm, self-satisfied glow of attending has worn off — where does the hard work begin? For its season two finale, It's Not A Race teamed up with Audiocraft to present 'the diversity panel to end all diversity panels' with all-star guests Paola Balla, Santilla Chingaipe and Benjamin Law, live onstage with Beverley Wang, for a conversation about the double-edged sword of standing in for 'diversity' and where they would like to see the conversation progress. Also featuring a musical performance by Yeo. Contact us at notarace@abc.net.au or tweet using #NotARace.

As a prelude to ACCA’s major exhibition, 'Unfinished Business: Perspectives on art and feminism' (15 Dec 2017 – 25 March 2018), this panel discussion starts the conversation about the historical legacies and new debates within feminism and discuss the ‘unfinished business’ of feminism today. Speakers: Atong Atem is a South Sudanese artist and writer whose work explores postcolonial practices in the diaspora, the relationship between public and private spaces and the politics of looking and being looked at. Paola Balla is a Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara artist, curator and academic, Victoria University, and co-curator of Unfinished Business. Emily Floyd is an artist and collaborator with Mary Featherson on the exhibition Round Table. Anne Marsh is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, whose work focuses on performance art, photography, feminist art history and theory. Editing and sound by Eric Demetriou

On this episode of Women on the Line Thanh Hằng Phạm chats to Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara artist, curator and writer Paola Balla on blak matriachy and powerful blak women making art. We also hear from Māori (Waikato, Tainui A Whiro, Ngaati Tahinga) artist Kirsten Lyttle on indigenizing photography and weaving.*Artwork "Twilled Work" by Kirsten Lyttle 

"Familiarity with suffering makes you very strong." - Paola Balla In the second episode of our season on belonging and exclusion, created in partnership with FCAC, cross-disciplinary performance artist Carly Sheppard and PhD researcher, artist and curator extraordinaire Paola Balla speak about Australian Aboriginal women's perspective on intersectionality, motherhood, contemporary feminism, and making art. We are so privileged to be listening in. "I think a lot of people don't realise that it's embedded white supremacy that's the problem, it's not necessarily the white people. And until they understand that they carry the scars of colonisation as well... Obviously, they don't carry the scars that we carry, we're a different set. But they haven't yet owned their own set. They don't even know what they are." - Carly Sheppard This episode was recorded at Women of the World Melbourne, amongst the hustle and bustle of the festival. There were so many complex and interesting ideas and generosity of sharing going on that we wanted to catch ideas as they landed. The conversation was recorded following a discussion on motherhood, which is reflected in the conversation between our guests. As usual, we gave our guests some general questions we were curious to hear about, but otherwise we just listened. Discussed in this episode: white women explaining things on behalf of black women, sitting with conflict, giving birth at 21, postnatal depression, contemporary feminism, life as a white-presenting blackfella, not understanding the conflict you're born into, the oppression of being ladylike, what does it even mean, having it all?, how sometimes you need a safe landing, and listening to the silences of trauma. "Matriarchy has been around for tens of thousands of generations. And we had our roles in our culture: we never felt inferior to men. That was never a thing. That's a colonial construct." - Paola Balla If you wish to know more: Jana has written about Carly Sheppard's work in RealTime, which had appeared at Next Wave 2014's BLAK WAVE; here is another review, in The Conversation. If you are curious to know more about Paola Balla, have a look at the exhibition 'Sovereignty' she recently curated for ACCA, read her 2016 interview with Il Globo, or watch this ABC video. You can subscribe to Audiostage on iTunes or any number of Android platforms, friend us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter. This season of Audiostage was created in partnership with Footscray Community Arts Centre as part of WOW – Women of the World Festival Melbourne, delivered in association with Southbank Centre London.

We listen to a panel discussion called Arts + Sovereignty which was part of the Wominjeka Festival at Footscray Community Arts Centre. The panel was facilitated by Paola Balla who was joined by a wonderful panel of guests including Rosie Kilvert, Kamahi King, Miliwanga Wurrben and Léuli Eshraghi. In this excerpt we will hear from Paola, Rosie and Miliwanga as they discuss the intersections of art and decolonisation.Alice Skye - You Are The Mountains

We’ll talk about visual work created for young audiences. With Martyn Coutts, Paola Balla, Yumi Umiumare and Andy Packer.