Kudos acknowledges and pays respect to the Gadigal and Bidjigal people of the Eora nation. They are the traditional custodians of the land Kudos operates on. We create, design, share, and exchange our work and knowledge on this important meeting place. We pay our respects to elders past and present and extend that respect to any First Nations people who engage with Kudos. This is and always will be Aboriginal land.
Kudos Digital
Aarushi Zarthoshtimanesh
Re-enacting the supposed nature and nurture of home(s) we’re made to believe in.
The Asian koel (koyal) bird is one that doesn’t make her own nest for her eggs/ children to grow up in. Instead, she perches in the nests of other crows who have already given birth and usually pushes aside the Crow’s eggs, making room for her children there instead. The koels in that way grow up with the violent lineage of erasure, of displacement and the need to keep fighting to even survive. But never taught to build a home, in this way the mother does what she can to keep her eggs away from danger.
Drawing parallels with these acts of survival, I embody the Koyal through and artist and dancer Angelica Joy, investigates the role of the Crow. Between symbolism and repetition our identities find themselves lost in the amorphous borders of geography and memory in this sonorous world.