various locations, September 6, 2023
Embassy
Richard Bell
In 1972, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established outside the Australian national parliament. It was erected to challenge the status, treatment, and rights of Aboriginal people in Australia. Forty-six years later, the Tent Embassy remains in place, one of the longest ongoing protests in the world. As an extension of this protest, Richard Bell’s Embassy (2013–) is a public space for imagining and articulating alternate futures and reflecting on or retelling stories of oppression and displacement, drawing on black power politics, theatre and performance art.