Stanmore Tensionby Oliver Sheldrick. Artwork by Cameron Brown. Displeasing the Masses The homogenising nature of popular exhibition in response to the ideas including poetry and analysis. culture was the focus of Concordia represented in the artists’ work. One striking work from the exhibition Gallery’s Displeasing the Masses: Pop A week of public programming followed was Primitive Nostalgia by Caroline Culture and Resistance exhibition in the opening, where the curators took Garcia, a short film created in 2014 Term 2. Visual Arts and elective classes from that looks at the different ways in which Curated by Chiara Scafidi and Peter Years 7 to 10 through art theory famous films portray certain cultures Waples-Crowe, the exhibition considered workshops on contemporary Indigenous and ethnicities through the act of artists who identify as being on the culture and how it is represented in art. dancing. It challenges Hollywood’s outside of mainstream culture, whether The curators led discussions about colonial gaze, that racialises and through gender, culture or history. performance art, appropriated cultures objectifies ethnic groups, stereotyping Students from Year 9/10 elective ‘Power, and power relations. Classes responded their culture and appearance. Propaganda and Plagiarism’ also to the artworks through a range of Ms Hannah Chapman contributed political text painting to the critical and historical writing formats, Concordia Curator/Visual Arts Teacher Artwork created by Samuel Howes as part of the 'Power, Propaganda and Plagiarism' elective. Students viewing Deep Alamat by Bhenji Ra and Justin Shoulder. GRATITUDE | NEWS SPRING 2018| 19