In this article, four women engage, talk, and write about Indigenous sovereignty in Australia's southeast—the region of Australia most devastated by colonial incursion and the site of vibrant cultural activism in the present day. We are two non‐Indigenous academics (Sabra Thorner and Fran Edmonds) working together with two Indigenous artist‐curators (Maree Clarke and Paola Balla) in a process of collaborative, intercultural culture‐making. We mobilise two ethnographic examples—Maree Clarke's backyard and the 2016–2017 Sovereignty exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art—to assert that decolonising is an ongoing process which requires that non‐Indigenous peoples acknowledge their own privilege, learn Aboriginal histories, imagine both difference and coexistence; and that the goals of decolonisation are as diverse as the activists calling for it. In both contexts, art/culture‐making, alongside storytelling, are crucial forms of Indigenous knowledge production, led by Aboriginal women via their engagements with the artworld(s) in Melbourne and beyond.

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马里的后院：墨尔本土著主权的跨文化合作

在本文中，四名妇女参与，讨论并撰写了澳大利亚东南部的土著主权。澳大利亚东南部是当今受殖民主义侵害和充满活力的文化激进主义破坏最严重的澳大利亚地区。我们是两位非土著学者（Sabra Thorner和Fran Edmonds）与两位土著艺术家策展人（Maree Clarke和Paola Balla）在跨文化合作的过程中共同工作。我们动员了两个人种学的例子-马里·克拉克（Maree Clarke）的后院和澳大利亚当代艺术中心2016-2017年主权展览—断言非殖民化是一个持续的过程，需要非土著人民承认自己的特权，学习土著历史，想象两个差异与共存；非殖民化的目标与激进主义者所呼吁的一样多样化。在这两种情况下，艺术/文化制作以及讲故事都是土著知识生产的重要形式，由土著妇女通过与墨尔本及以后地区的艺术界的交往来领导。