Louis Anderson Mokak is a Djugun man from West Kimberley, based on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung country (Narrm/Melbourne). He is an interdisciplinary designer, writer and design consultant, and a member of the First Nations Advisory Working Group and Cultural Reference Panel at the Australian Institute of Architects.
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What’s missing ‘in between’?
Australia’s 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale exhibition, Inbetween, commendably showcases projects with a high degree of Indigenous engagement. But, asks Louis Anderson Mokak, are we celebrating prematurely?
Memory keeper: In Absence
A collaboration between architect and artist, this poignant work in the gardens of the National Gallery of Victoria challenges the colonial legacy of art institutions, interrogating the absence of truth in the western canon and asking: how can architecture reconcile with the brutality of an unlawful and violent colonial history?
Taking flight: Bunjil Place
In referencing Bunjil the Creator, FJMT’s Bunjil Place raises ongoing questions about recognition, symbolism and community space.
