This winter, Blak Dot teams up again with neighbouring partners Next Wave, Counihan Gallery and Michelle Gugliemo Park to light up the dark with Around The Block 2026 - our annual, six-week outdoor screening series of moving image.
Through installation, photography and archival research, After Spectacle: Photography, Authority and the Archive by Kirsten Garner Lyttle examines how nineteenth-century visual technologies, museum practices and exhibition culture shaped colonial ways of seeing, believing and knowing.
Reassociate explores how pop culture disconnects violent histories from their original contexts, eroding our collective memory of nuclear warfare and colonial violence. Through hariko dolls, animation, and archival research, Japanese artist and illustrator Yasuko Toda reconnects past and present to question how cultural dissociation enables cycles of violence to continue.
OPENING EVENT: Join us outside the gallery to celebrate the opening of Around the Block. The evening will begin with a Welcome to Country by Thane Garvey, followed by an artist-led walk and talk across all screening sites. Enjoy mulled wine and gather around the fire pit as we keep warm and celebrate together.
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