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Emeka Ogboh_NGA

Become part of Nigerian-born artist and migrant Emeka’s ongoing global conversation on belonging.

This work revolves around a collaborative gin, made using Tasmanian expertise and endemic botanicals fused with those from West Africa. Emeka created this blend to start a sensory journey that explores the essence of migration—its challenges and opportunities. In the immersive exhibition at Detached, you’ll taste the gin (and snacks) amidst a ‘symphony of intellectual conversations’ and music from an accompanying sound installation.

There’ll be a public marketing campaign—keep your eyes peeled on the streets of Hobart—and a very limited ballot-entry dinner in the exhibition space (ballot now closed).

Emeka will also be working with Mona's Executive Chef Vince Trim, adding West African flavours and dishes to Mona’s restaurants throughout the festival (where they’ll also be paired with the gin).

Exhibition

Fri 16—Sun 25 Feb

11am—4pm

At Detached and billboards throughout Hobart

Detached

Free

Gin and gastronomy

Fri 16—Mon 19 Feb

11am—4pm

At Mona: The Source, Wine Bar, Dubsy's, Void Bar

Mona

Museum Entry

Gin and gastronomy

Thu 22—Mon 26 Feb

11am—5pm

At Mona: The Source, Wine Bar, Dubsy's, Void Bar

Mona

Museum Entry

Gin
Taylor & Smith Distillery Co, distillers
Megan Perkins, bottle design
Sam Bray, accompanying snack

Sound installation sources
John Kamara, 2023 Tasmanian Australian of the Year, speech to Tasmanian Parliament, 9 May 2023Home affairs minister Clare O'Neil, at the National Press Club, 27 April 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsxtqC9q6qY
ABC, Four Corners - Voice of the People: People in the street give their opinion on the White Australia Policy, 1962
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zb8yLammA0
ABC, Antenna: Should foreigners be allowed to live in Australia?, 1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5nCgvPcG5M

Video sources
Australian Government Policy, Pacific Solution, 2001 - 2007
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Solution
'Released detainees to wear ankle bracelets indefinitely, as lawyers condemn ‘disproportionate’ response', Lisa Visentin and Miki Perkins, Sydney Morning Herald, published online 18 November 2023
https://www.smh.com.au/national/released-detainees-to-be-fitted-with-ankle-bracelets-from-today-20231118-p5ekyv.html
Australian Government Policy, 'Zero Chance - Australia's borders are patrolled all day, every day', 2013 - present
https://osb.homeaffairs.gov.au/zero-chance
Australian Government Policy, Operation Sovereign Borders, 2013 - present
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sovereign_Borders
Refugee Council of Australia, 'UN Member States Challenge Australia's Refugee and Asylum Policies', Australia's third Universal Periodic Review by United Nations Human Rights Council, January 2021
https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Australia-UPR-2101.pdf
University of New South Wales, Tampa affair: tracing the fallout on Australia's refugee policy, 21 December 2021
https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/social-affairs/tampa-affair-tracing-fallout-australias-refugee-policy
Australian Human Rights Commission website, Asylum Seekers and Refugees: The principle of non-refoulement.
https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/rights-and-freedoms/publications/asylum-seekers-and-refugees#:~:text=As%20a%20party%20to%20the,the%20principle%20of%20non%2Drefoulement
Australian Financial Review, What the migration boom means for the global economy, 31 May 2023
https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/what-the-migration-boom-means-for-the-global-economy-20230530-p5dcct