HOMETruths, 2017-2022
Three channel video installation, 21 minutes
HOMEtruths is a three-channel video work co-created over five years alongside several long-term co-creators and their families across varying states of freedom and confinement. This work marks an extension of our long-form project ‘You’ll Know It When You Feel It’. It emerges from the lived experience of loving people who are relentlessly incarcerated and the ways these cycles shape how we hold each other.
Navigating carceral bureaucracies and surveillance, HOMEtruths foregrounds forms of connection that persist despite the physical barriers imposed by prison. Through a non-linear assemblage of family albums including social media live stream videos captured on relatives phones, and audio recordings of monitored prison phone calls, the work creates space for the ongoing involvement of loved ones during periods of captivity. Within this structure, moments of everyday life, such as first baths and first birthdays, become bittersweet family records of time and memory, held for those behind bars.
Rather than documenting incarceration, the work centres the relational labour that sustains kinship across prison walls, amplifying the broad spectrum of emotions that circulate between incarcerated individuals and their loved ones.
Credits:
Raphaela (Rosie) Rosella alongside Dayannah Baker Barlow, Kathleen Duncan and Tricia Whitton in collaboration with: Caroline Atkinson (advisor), Emily Avila, Boyd Britton (producer), Charlie Brown, Michelle Brown, Rowena Brown, Tearna Brown, Keith Baker, Zach Baker Barlow (location sound assistant), Daylene Barlow, Hannah Barlow, Rachael Barlow, Daniel Boney, Harry Boney, Kevin Boney, Rachel Choi, Rose Connors, Mike Copeland, Shanika Copeland, Shonny Copeland, Jemma Craigie (community project manager), Adam Duncan, Audie Duncan, Cassie Duncan, Dannielle Duncan, Jakhalia Duncan, Jennifer Duncan, Baby John Duncan, Kayla Duncan, Linda Duncan, Lisa Duncan, Mitchel Duncan, Aunty Paula Duncan (advisor), Paula Duncan (advisor), Uncle Peter Duncan (dec), Sandra Duncan, Shamira Duncan, Shane Duncan (location sound assistant), Aunty Shirley Duncan, Liza Faktor, Edward Fernando, Hailey Fernando, Hayden Fernando, Matari Fernando, Nariah Fernando, Nazariah Fernando, Shaelara Fernando, Tristen Fernando, Tyrese Fernando, Tommy Fing, Jacob Flanders, Lintarli Flanders, Marley Flanders, Christopher Graham, Monique Graham, Tyeira Haines, Bradley Hamilton (location sound assistant), Troy Kemp, Ty-Leta Kemp, Debbie Kilroy (advisor), Barrajai Lasserre, Travis Leslie, Jalika Leslie, Kyesha Nayden, Jakey Nicholls, Jessie Pitt, Baby Alessio Perrigo, Lattiesha Nicholls, Cyril Smith Kiara Smith, Malika Smith, Yogi Swan, Shataiya Swan, Mallana Duncan Taylor, Robert Taylor, Marsha Tighe, Tika Tighe, Mika Tyson, Shakira Tyson, Rachael Tyson, Trevor Tweeton (co-editor), Adric Watson (cinematographer and co-editor) Les ‘Welshy’ Welsh, AJ Whitton, Ashanti Whitton, Jennifer Whitton, Peter Whitton, Nabby Whitton (location sound assistant), Lance Whitton jr, Lance Whitton snr, Laurinda Whitton, Shavanni Whitton, Shiralee Whitton, Alan Widders, Kaylan Widders, Joshua Wilkinson (sound design and location recordist), Brayden ‘Red Bull’ Williams, Wonna Barlow Williams.
Primary Sponsor: Rachel Verghis
This project is also supported by Ian Potter Cultural Trust, PhMuseum, Beyond Empathy, John Weiley, Adrian Williams and by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
