Kunika studio
Moussaoui x Kunika Studio.
Decolonise Barbie.
Part of the PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival Independant Programme.
SUNDAY 15 FEBRUARY
3:30 PM START / COCKTAIL ON ARRIVAL / GRAZING TABLE /
TAKE HOME YOUR DECLONISED BARBIE ( AND YOUR STORY)
Kunika Studio, Moussaoui, and the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service invite you to critically and creatively engage with Barbie as a canvas.
Dismantling Eurocentric beauty standards and reimagining her in ways that reflect diverse identities, Indigenous culture
and personal narratives.
Powerfully asserting that culture
is living and sovereign.
A workshop that blends fashion
with activism.
Contact Kunika Studio and Lisa Henderson via email at lisa@kunikastudio.com.au.
Kunika Studio acknowledges all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, our Elders past, present, and those to come. We acknowledge the 60,000 years
of our living culture; it's stories, traditions, lore and ways of being as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of lands, waters and sky, and commit
to building a brighter future together.
Lisa Henderson, Storyteller
Kunika Studio.
Lisa Henderson of Kunika Studio is a proud Barkindji woman whose practice embodies storytelling through fire and fibre.
As a pyrographer and contemporary sculptural weaver,
Lisa channels her deep connection to Country and culture into every creation. Through her sculptural weaving, Lisa offers counter-narratives that centre Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing.
Grounded in Critical Race Theory, her work interrogates systems of representation, deconstructing colonial narratives of what is art, culture, and Country. Using materials gathered from Country as both medium and message, each piece becomes an act of persuasive resistance through education and reimagining.
A powerful assertion that culture is living and sovereign.