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Paola Balla

About Paola -

Paola Balla is a Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara woman, visual artist, curator and writer. She is a lecturer in Indigenous Education and Indigenous art and a PhD Candidate at Victoria University.

Articles by Paola

'We don’t need to see our blood to know we bleed'

The criticism of Spanish artist Santiago Sierra’s plan to use the blood of First Nations’ people in a now-cancelled project for Dark Mofo is not about censorship or cancel culture, writes Paola Balla. It is about accountability and ethics.