Design and Art Australia Online

Our Potential Allies (1980), dual monitor installation, 15:00 mins. Reconfigured for single screen (1999).
Various locations including The Sydney Studio (1981); Australian Perspecta (1981) Art Gallery of NSW Sydney; “Portopia 81”, Kobe, Japan (1981); “Vision in Disbelief”, 4th Biennale of Sydney (1982); “Parallel Universes”, Queensland University of Technology (2012); “Digital Aesthetic”, Preston, UK, (2012)
Our Potential Allies draws upon a well established history of Western colonial intervention, anthropological speculation and missionary zeal, while proposing an intuitive and ironic critique of Eurocentric belief-systems founded upon the dichotomy of self (the West) and the Other …