The Blak Laundry @ Tarnanthi, Art Gallery of South Australia
Over the opening weekend of Tarnanthi in the AGSA Courtyard, Ngugi Quandamooka artist Libby Harward and Gamilaroi artist Dominique Chen will present The Blak Laundry, part-sculptural installation, part-functional laundromat, and part-site for community gathering.
The Blak Laundry operates as both a literal and conceptual space for washing dirty laundry, transforming public and institutional spaces into working laundromats where conversations around sovereignty, cultural labour, capitalism, and everyday Blak life unfold. Audiences will be invited to interact by observing, washing, folding, listening, yarning, or joining scheduled ‘agitations’—interactive performances, meditations, games and storytelling sessions.
Go to https://www.agsa.sa.gov.au/whats-on/tarnanthi/tarnanthi-2025/tarnanthi-the-blak-laundry/ for more details.
The Blak Laundry takover of Richard Bell's Embassy @ UniSC Art Gallery
Join local laundros Libby Harward (Quandamooka) and Dom Chen (Gamilaroi) for a Blak Laundry takeover—a warm and gentle blakwash to sort through your delicate whites, remove stubborn stains from your social fabric, and to help launder cultural capital (and raise real live money!) to support First Nations artists and community. The Blak Laundry is a functional laundromat, living artwork and ‘relational enterprise’ celebrating all things Blak.
Bring your washing, bring your banggu ($$) and help share the load.
This agitation session will be held in Richard Bell's Embassy, an itinerant roving embassy made in homage to the audacity and strength of the first Aboriginal Tent Embassy pitched on the grounds of Parliament House, Canberra in 1972.
Tickets are free, and bookable at https://events.humanitix.com/the-blak-laundry-takeover-richard-bell-s-embassy
The Blak Laundry @ Woodford Folk Festival 2023
The Blak Laundry is a functional laundromat – and exhibition space – for conversation, collaboration and celebration of all things Blak. Activated by Libby Harward (Quandamooka) and Dominique Chen (Gamilaroi), the concept is simple: bring your dirty linen, pop it on a warm wash, and engage in critical conversation whilst it cleans. In The Blak Laundry, everything comes out in the wash. The exhibition and laundromat are open daily 7:00AM – 10:00PM. No bookings are required for washing. Last wash at 9:00PM.
https://woodfordfolkfestival.com/programme/artist/the-blak-laundry/
The Blak Laundry @ The Horizon Festival 2023
A functional laundromat an exhibition space for conversation, collaboration and celebration of all things Blak.
Activated by Libby Harward and Dominique Chen, the concept is simple: Bring your dirty linen, pop it in on warm wash, and engage in critical conversation whilst it cleans.
In the laundry everything comes out the wash.
Exhibition laundromat are open daily no bookings require.