This program reflects on global experiences of Blackness and particularly its intersections with Indigeneity. Bringing together artists, writers, curators, and scholars from across Australia, the Americas, Africa and its diaspora, this conversation between members of the proppaNOW collective and invited speakers considers the multiplicity of Black subjectivities. The Aboriginal experience marks a twofold connection between Blackness and Indigeneity, which frames this discussion on the intersecting histories and articulations of global Blackness. Focusing on connections, divergences, and attendant misconceptions, speakers think towards building coalitions for solidarity and relationality. Within the white-dominated global art context, the conversation also touches on questions of authenticity and representation of Blackness and Indigeneity, asking what forms of Blackness—or Blacknesses—are understood or underrepresented within institutional conversations.

Speakers include members of 2022–2024 Jane Lombard Prize recipient proppaNOW—Vernon Ah Kee and Warraba Weatherall—alongside M. Carmen Lane, two-spirit African-American and Haudenosaunee (Mohawk/Tuscarora) artist, writer and facilitator; Another Roadmap Africa Cluster member Lineo Segoete; and moderator Darla Migan, art critic, philosopher, and part-time lecturer at Parsons School of Design.