Ethan Morais

The dispossessed come out at night. In daylight we forget them. is a two-channel video work that explores anti-colonial politics against sectarian futility, outlined by Friere’s writing on radicalization and conscientização.

Filmed outside the artist’s home in Te Whanganui-a-tara, Aotearoa, and in Kernow, UK.  The work collates countries, communities, and times. This relationship is re-presented through european image conventions that are ingrained in Aotearoa’s colonial visual language. Process and method are not separate from the artwork’s theme or concepts; but are subject to them. Informed by Spivak’s Subaltern writings and Trinh’s Speaking Nearby; the work is made through collaborative conversations with actors and crew. Collaborations are recognised as the works place, peoples, architectures and their voice. This collaboration is further explored in the folding of time and place in its editing.

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