New Vision City is an Indigenous led project with six First Nations artists working across diverse street-based practices like street dance, skateboarding, vogueing, and roller skating; New Vision City is a live, intercultural performance intended for family and children as audiences, telling First Nations stories devised from each artists’ Culture and Country.
Through shared practice, conversation and movement, First Nations stories, lived experiences and cultural knowledge is expressed through street-style forms, and how these forms can speak powerfully to young audiences.
As a blakfullah growing up in regional australia, street styles was a rare form of liberation and expression. As these forms are built outside of institutions, they are learned through risk , failure, repetition and public scrutiny.
Knowledge is earned on concrete, in parks and on streets, passed laterally, shaped by community respect rather than formal authority. I recognise the powerful parallel, between urban street styles and our cultural knowledge living and adapting despite systems designed to erase or control us.
Both spaces emerge from structural exclusion. Street-style cultures reimagine environments not built for them; Blak First Nations communities have continually created culture within colonial systems that police, stereotype and marginalise our bodies. The rawness is not aesthetic, it is political. It is about self-determination, spatial claim and cultural survival.
In my practice, I intentionally work at this intersection. I see street-style as a contemporary site of resistance and pride, a space where First Nations artists can assert sovereignty over their stories, their bodies and the ground beneath them.
– Ghenoa Gela, Lead Artist
director/movement director
Ghenoa Gella
associate lead artist
Luke Currie-Richardson
creative performers
Sage Macbeath
Tia Pitman
Joshua Weribone
Gusta Mara
producer
Michaela Coventry
Video
Excerpts and interviews from a first gathering in December 2025.
New Vision City is supported by the Australia Government through Creative Australia.
