A theatre of post/colonial redaction: mapping the terrains of an Aboriginal self

This work draws from lived experience, at times, deeply personal, as an Aboriginal ‘self’/creative writer, to interrogate and map interweaving narratives and vocalities through multiple axes, inveigling differing theorists and genre forms to interrogate the exterior and interior spaces and terrains of a Local Aboriginal Land Council in New South Wales as a post/colonial theatre. These spaces are redacted arenas, and this project is both a critical exploration and a creative response to sets of lived realities, observations and processes of making visible these fraught and nuanced spatialities and places that can be made and re-made into reproductions of social and psychic abjection and violence. It is motivated by a call from Country, who remains witness to the difficulty in navigating these fraught and contradictory arenas. The expositional device of creative bricolage, and the privileging of Indigenous Knowledges, considers spatial processes that settle and emerge in LALCs as more than one kind of space. This work is testimony of showing and being in Country through storying, and seeks finally to engage a restorative process in forging improved relationships from those interiors of experience that have been silenced.