Vernon Ah Kee 'Dark + Disturbing' T-shirts
Collection
The collection contains T-shirts featuring text, including plays on words which expose Australia's colonial legacy and its ongoing implications for Aboriginal people, created as part of Vernon Ah Kee's curatorial project Dark + Disturbing.
"Dark + Disturbing is a curatorial project of artist Vernon Ah Kee that explores Aboriginal sensibilities around knowledge, identity, and protest. It interrogates power structures and provides a platform for Aboriginal voice". Vernon Ah Kee explains "Dark + Disturbing" references the place the "aborigine" holds in this country. The "aborigine" is either rendered invisible, as in terra nullius, or is made negative and pathologised as a problem or a curse." (Dark + Disturbing website, viewed 14 October 2021)
In copyright.