Custom-built social media tools for award winning online sovereign exhibition space
“The Digital Aboriginal Embassy represents a symbolic and significant step forward for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, taking control of sovereign space in the digital realm.”
2021 Winner ImaginE Awards - EXHIBITION PROJECTS – GALLERIES
WHO
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Richard Bell: You Can Go Now was the largest solo exhibition by artist and activist, Richard Bell, bringing together over 30 years of his practice. The focus was not only on Bell’s notorious persona, but on the human behind the practice, revealing a personal history that reflects the post-colonial Australian narrative of displacement, racism and the erasure of First Nations histories.
NEED
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) needed an interactive website to deliver its Digital Aboriginal Embassy project. The exhibition, online platforms, publication, Embassy conversations and Digital Aboriginal Embassy – a first of its kind sovereign digital space sought to actively engage wide-ranging audiences in important and timely conversations. The site needed to be thought provoking and evoke responses from those who enter to:
question identities
use critical thought
participate
Engage with different voices
SOLUTION
Built in Django. The project includes innovative custom-built social media tools, articulate content moderated in Wagtail, and then published to the website.