‘Changing Practice’ is a series of video diaries created during Cat Auburn’s 2019 research residency with D6 – Culture in Transit (UK) as part of their programme, There is Beauty in this Journey.
Within her practice Cat researches how material culture interrogates systems of power. Whilst in residence Cat turned this reflection inwards, and she began to decode her creative practice in relation to her own cultural heritage. By looking towards her personal identity and relationship with certain systems of power – colonialism and whiteness – she explored how her methods of working as an artist are influenced by these systems.
As a pākehā (a white New Zealander of European descent) Cat’s relationship with immigration in Britain is complex: she has an insider’s cultural privilege due to the colour of her skin and her Commonwealth links, yet she is also an outsider affected by the alarming anti-immigration policy-making and rhetoric of contemporary Brexit-era Britain.
Cat recorded these thoughts throughout the residency in a series of video diaries launched on Mural, our multimedia storytelling platform.
D6 – Culture in Transit
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Cat Auburn (2019). Changing Practice. video still
Cat Auburn (2019). Changing Practice. video still
Cat Auburn (2019). Changing Practice. video still
Cat Auburn (2019). Changing Practice. video still
