Frances Libeau & Steve Lovett with a lecture by Welby Ings

Artist Frances Libeau and Steve Lovett explore her newly commissioned multimedia installation AS LOYAL KIWIS WE CANNOT DESIRE, examining the Homosexual Law Reform Act of 1986 through the lens of cultural memory production and material histories. The kōrero addresses the oppositional campaign against the bill and its lasting legacies.

Following this conversation, Professor Welby Ings (AUT) presents a lecture on the human impact of antigay rhetoric during the 1985–86 law reform campaigning, connecting historical political discourse to lived experience.