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Hello, i am a student editor in soci3047 new article Sovereign Acts: Bound unbound collective

Sovereign Acts is a series of performances by four academic Indigenous Women from Australia, that formed the bound unbound collective. The initial experimental performance that began in 2014 and ongoing, explores complex ideas of being both bound and free; the idea of creative artistic performances is embedded deeply and historically by Indigenous Australians, for thousands of years prior to colonization. This medium is a powerful sovereign position that asks and challenges concepts from the lived perspective around what Indigenous people are bound to historically and as sovereign people (first nations people of Australia), What they choose to (un)bind themselves from, in the present context and into the future '''(1)(Government of South Australia/ Arts SA Flinders University). '''

The four Indigenous women are academics through Flinders' University of South Australia, who have all worked together at Yunggorendi First Nations Centre. These four Indigenous women Ali Baker, Faye Rosas, Simone Ululka and Natalie Harkin have taught a large quantity of Non Indigenous students topics around Indigenous Histories, and cultural studies spanning 10 years ' '(2) (Act 1 bound unbound: Sovereign Acts [online]. Artlink vol,35, no.3, sep 2015 pp 60-65). ''

Faye Rosas Blanche: Born Atherton Table Lands Queensland. Lives and works on Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide. Mbararam/Yidinyji Rain forest region, Natalie Harkin, born 1970 Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide. Lives and works on Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide. Narungga, Spencer Region. Simone Ulalka Tur, Born 1971 Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide. Lives and works on Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide. Yankunytjatjara Western desert region. Ali Gumillya Baker, Born 1975, Kaurna Yarta, Adelaide. Lives and works on Kauran Yarta, Adelaide, Mirning, South West region. (3) (The national New Australian Art 2017) .

The bound unbound collective seeks to engage Aboriginal community members and non Indigenous Australians to educates, resist and talk about key issues for Indigenous and non Indigenous people alike. Historically Indigenous people have been contained and separated from within and beyond the walls and boundaries of the so called cultural precinct of Adelaide the Institutions. These four women speak back to colonial institutions of power who are the dominant keepers and tellers of knowledge and its recordings. (4) (http://www.Flinders.edu.au/Yunggorendi). Each member of the collective addresses the key notions of ethical practice and responsibility towards country. Enacting creative performances to showcase memory, and story telling which is key to Indigenous cultures, whilst offering an interrogation of state archives or environmental issues. These four Indigenous Australian women explore the notions and ideas around being free or bound through creative performing arts such as poetics, visual art, song, and dance to enact Indigenous sovereignty. The arts are central to Indigenous Australians, whilst engaging non Indigenous Australians in key concerns shared by all Australians. ' '(4) (http://www.Flinders.edu.au/Yunggorendi). ''

These four Indigenous Australian women combine academics, research and creative artistic performances to target key issues that Indigenous people are oppressed by and resist under the term Sovereign Acts. Ali Gumillya Baker shifts the colonial gaze through film, performance, projection and grandmothers stories. Simone Ululka Tur's performance is poetics, song enact an inter-generational transmission story-work through language revival and education. Faye Rosas Blanch engages rap theory to embody sovereignty and shedding of the colonial skin (to remove the oppressive outer layers from oppressive Anglo European conditions and enforced restrictions from culture and connection to country. Natalie Harkins archival poetics is informed by blood memory, haunting and grandmother stories. (5) (OSCACity of Port Adelaide, Enfield Country Arts SA, City of Onkaparinga Council 2016).

Bound unbound: Sovereign Acts, builds on the success of Act one in 2014, extending these key ideas and major concerns their acts are progressive, inspired, researched and lived and continue through embodied projection and performances as a progressive lived culture. ' '(6) (National Indigenous Knowledges network) ''