Fallout

Fallout

Vol 23 no 1, 2003


A nation trying to deal with a phoney war, the resurfacing of racism, paranoia and panic over border control and a population deeply split over its government's actions in relation to these. Artists respond to the shame of the Children Overboard episode, the Tampa Crisis, the inhuman conditions in our refugee detention centres and the 'war on terror'. We look at how easily the surface acceptance of peaceful multiculturalism and reconciliation can be disturbed by external forces. Earlier waves of boat people reflect on this situation through new exhibitions and performances. Prominent and emerging artists combine to make their voices heard.


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Gordon Bennett: Terrorism and History

Ian McLean, feature

For Gordon Bennett, as for many around the world who have been living in the anonymous killing fields rather than the pleasure gardens of modernity, 911 was another shock wave of a world war without end. In this moment of danger, the past again flashed by, brushing against the grain of history. McLean here looks at Bennett's imaginative migration to New York in 1998 and his ongoing conceptual pursuits in the realm of culture and colonisation, creating narratives which explicitly draw Australian and American colonial history together.



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