Details
Free, no booking required
NGV Federation Court
180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne VIC, Australia
Dates
Sun 17 May 11 – 11.30am
This talk explores the vision behind Non-Aligned Books, a newly opened independent bookshop and publishing initiative dedicated to printed matter from Africa, its Diaspora, and the Global South. The project seeks to broaden the literary landscape by highlighting voices and perspectives often underrepresented in mainstream collections and discourse.
Founder Bona Obiri-Yeboah and artist Lửa / Lucy Nguyễn-Hunt will discuss the imprint’s unique curatorial approach, focusing on how intentional book selection and community building can create a more inclusive and reflective creative landscape for knowledge sharing and resistance.
Participants
Bona Obiri-Yeboah
Bona Obiri-Yeboah is the founder, executive director and editor-in-chief of Non-Aligned Books, an independent art bookshop in naarm specialising in printed matter on Africa, its Diaspora, class struggle & the Global South. They are also an emerging writer who is a guest across the unceded lands of so-called “Australia”. He is the author of Ruminations, a debut chapbook published by Cahyati Press in December 2024. Ruminations is a collection of poems meditating on romance, (un)belonging, and on moving through the fragmented fever-dream of black life in the colony.
Lửa / Lucy Nguyễn-Hunt
Lửa / Lucy Nguyễn-Hunt is an emerging Vietnamese, Sāmoan and Rarotongan artist currently based in naarm Melbourne. Her practice examines her place within an intersection of rich and deep cultural histories, whilst situated in Australia, carrying its own fraught and violent history. She observes these intergenerational ties through moving image, photography, lighting, poetics and sound. Interested in the persistence of cultural memory in spite of separation, Lucy uses her practice as a means of community connection to resist colonial erasure. She graduated with First Class Honours in Fine Arts at Monash University in 2022, and has exhibited at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, The Immigration Museum, and Somos Art Berlin.