Decolonial Aesthetics: Comparing Palestinian and Indigenous Australian Video Art

Abstract

This thesis contextualises contemporary decolonial aesthetics in a history of solidarity established between grassroots Indigenous Australian and Palestinian activists in the 1970s. While the lives of Indigenous Australians and Palestinians continue to be shaped by a permanent occupation, the history of solidarity between these two communities has flown under the radar until recently because both countries belong to two very different regions and seemingly have little in common. Yet, both are a legacy of settler colonialism courtesy of British imperialism with a shared history of decolonial solidarity. Attending to this gap, this thesis develops the first account of political alliances estab..