Alana Hunt is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores history through a forensic approach to research. Her work mines the history of Australia, often utilising archival material to navigate the violent, colonial past.
In her 2023 work, Surveilling a Crime Scene, Hunt navigates the materialisation of non-Indigenous life on Miriwoong Country in the town of Kununurra. That exploration brings forth the often violent terminology utilised to demean and dehumanise First Nations people of the region.
In her latest work, Displacement and Replacement: A Remixed Narrative of Western Australia, a film that utilises the archived work of Bryan Lobascher to present the manner that violence permeates through the landscape, films that utilise terminology to suggest that there is nothing of value living on and with that land. Lobascher's work presents in a beatific and adoring manner a level of cruel environmental destruction that has continued over the decades of Western Australia's mining existence.
Hunt's work asks viewers to sit with that violence, understand its place in the present and to reconsider the past. These remixed films are interspersed with harsh sounds that inflict a sensory impact that leads us to further question the status quo.
In this interview, Alana discusses her processes as an artists, how she explores an archive and draws stories out, and more.
Find out more about Alana's work at AlanaHunt.net:
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Displacement and Replacement: A Remixed Narrative of Western Australia screens at Revelation Perth International Film Festival on Saturday 11 July 2026. Tickets are available via RevelationFilmFest.org.
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