IncarcerNation is a major exhibition responding to urgent contemporary conversations about incarceration, justice and systemic inequality in the Northern Territory and across regional Australia. The exhibition brings together leading artists whose practices examine the failures and violences of Australia’s prison system. Through video, installation, photography, painting, illustration, sound and documentary practices, IncarcerNation foregrounds lived experience, resistance an

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Coded Image/Coded Text June 3 - July 25, 2026 Hoda Afshar and Vernon Ah Kee Curated by Liz Ikiriko ​ In partnership with the 26th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and the Indigenous Curatorial Collective (ICCA) Coded Image/Coded Text centres on a four-channel film - Code Black/Riot - developed by Vernon Ah Kee, Hoda Afshar and Behrouz Boochani, originally commissioned for the 2026 Sydney Biennale. Created in collaboration with the advocacy organization Change t

Neither Water Nor Land begins in a place where time does not advance in a straight line. It settles. It thickens. It lingers underfoot. In peatlands, low oxygen and acidic water slow decay to an almost improbable degree – bodies, fabrics, seeds and wooden tools can endure for millennia. What was meant to vanish, instead persists. The bog becomes an unintended archive, holding stories that societies would rather discard and suspending them in a damp, uneasy present.What are kn

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Among the biennale’s most powerful works is a collaborative project by Kurdish Iranian journalist and author Behrouz Boochani, Iranian Australian artist Hoda Afshar and Kuku Yalandji/Waanji/Yidinji/Gugu Yimithirr artist Vernon Ah Kee, focusing on the experiences of Indigenous youth in detention. At Campbelltown Arts Centre, a darkened gallery space is devoted to the four-channel video installation Code Black/Riot, featuring the testimonials of former staff members and child i

Exploring the intersection of art and advocacy, ‘Code Black/Riot’ is a seminal collaboration between visual artists Hoda Afshar and Vernon Ah Kee, and writer Behrouz Boochani. The project – supported by First Nations advocacy organisation Change the Record and developed through a series of community visits, relational dialogue and time on Country – shines a spotlight on the crisis of mass incarceration of First Nations young people in Australia. https://www.biennaleofsydney.a

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