Joanne Kinniburgh and Shannon Foster
Wingara’ba’nya draws (on) built and unbuilt works as strategic interlocutors for the ways in which on-Country Indigenous spatial knowledges and ceremony counter colonial accounts of architectural history. While architecture is a device for spatially enacting a racialised, gendered colonisation of Country and erasure of local Aboriginality, ontologically embedded within it are spectral traces of agency and resistance. Architecture is haunted by the occupants of the overlooked or concealed margin: Aboriginal, accessible, gendered, queer and racial ghosting. Our architectural methodologies are challenged to listen, so that together we might foretell an alternative spatial future.