So what do you make of me?
A poem by Raj Arumugam
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What do you make of me
that you issue me these letters and forms
and make me wait endlessly and give
good circumspect chatter if I ask what I
should do next?
What secret conclusions
form the basis of your dealings?
What do you intend to make of me?
Perhaps you visualize my future as a
mute tight-lipped [...]
This City is a Body Artwork
by Aimee Falzon
Used in both the final performance and the film, This City is a Body is a painting of Sydney and its stories; simultaneously a map of the city and a human body.
This is a washed out digital version of the work – you have to visit the CuriousWorks’ offices to see the [...]
Maps
by Shakthi, 2007
this city is a body remembers what it felt like to arrive here for the first time, curious and displaced.
she wonders at the roots of our fears: those assumptions which make islands out of people.
as she breathes, her [...]
Roots and Leaves
by Xavier
I’m a Basque, which I suppose makes me something like an European aborigine, or at least belong to a group that was in this land long time before many others came.
Those are my roots, of which I have a strong sense of pride (one of the basic ingredients for cultural survival). And for example [...]
Histories
by Rebecca
Was just thinking about what some people said, about how Standing was a good description of the status quo but didn’t really talk about where to go from here. i realise that a lot of you probably haven’t been privvy to the various email discussions that take place between Siv and me but I [...]
This Land is Me
by Deepa
I never really considered the intense relationship between first peoples and the land until I moved to the Northern Territory.
It was at Gagaju (Kakadu) National Park where some of this realisation first revealed itself to me.
The tour guide at Ubir rock (married to a local woman) had a great depth of knowledge of the [...]
Border Crossings
by Matt
When I think of dangerous border crossings, I tend to think of those horror stories one hears about stolen passports and ludicrous bribes extracted deep in foreign jungles or at gun-point somewhere in Siberia. Over the past five years, I have begun to see that, for some, Australia’s borders are just as dangerous. Need [...]
Ferang
by Stuart
Oh, the idealism of youth. Of course, we agreed with our lecturer, teaching English in Thailand would make us better at teaching English to migrant Australians. Goes without saying. We would give superb lessons in Thailand, and we were going to Change the World.
But something intervened. The World Changed Us.
Those of you who assumed [...]
Spider Man, Spider Man
Spider Man, Spider Man. I get this at least five times a day, on the packed wet subway, in bars, eating baozi on the street in Beijing. At first, it was a completely unnerving experience to be approached by complete strangers demanding that I am a spandex-clad super-hero underneath my button-down Peter Parker work clothes. [...]
