Decolonial Hacker
On Enduring Structures and New Commitments at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
I have written this piece because I believe in words and their careful organisation as carriers of sincerity. I believe that contemporary art institutions like the MCA have the potential to show us what a vastly different future may look like and, in doing so, render the action of social transformation irresistible…As one friend said to me when discussing the merits of this undertaking: 'We should critique institutions we care about – how else will they grow with us?'
(Note on access: there is an audio recording of this essay.)
Blowing Up The Train
In this editorial, Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung discusses the challenges that have arisen since founding Decolonial Hacker, and the stance the project will take in response to these challenges.
We have been concerned – and will continue to be concerned – with what it means to imagine and work toward the annihilation of unjust structures. Yet this work, I have realised, will continue to be framed as scandalous and too radical by some.
Bonus: download the Decolonial Hacker web browser extension on the main page (click on the plus sign in the bottom right corner). When you turn on the extension and visit any of the official websites for the institutions critiqued, the webpage will dissolve to reveal the relevant Decolonial Hacker article.
(Note on access: there is an audio recording of this essay.)