Charging torrent is a new text and collage work hosted online created for MoreArt 2020, responding to a site on Wurundjeri land once known as the ‘Box Forest’, now Fawkner Memorial Park. The work mediates on the role that agriculture has played in settler narratives - both locally and nationally.
Combining a queer gaze with a mishmash of signifiers such as Banjo Patterson’s ‘Man from Snowy River’, images of animals, ‘great white men’, western-centric art magazines, abject bodies and video stills from a recent performance; the work seeks to subvert dominant Australian tales of farming and masculine labour.
Mira Oosterweghel is a queer artist of settler background, living on the stolen land of the Wurundjeri people where this work was made. Sovereignty was never ceded.