From its very inception, utopian spatialization has not been kind to Indigenous people. Anticipating a program of colonial violence in centuries to come, Thomas More's original utopian society is only founded after the conquest of a foreign land Thus the foundation of 'Utopia' is a hypocritical one, as the peaceable lives of its citizens are only secured as a result of violence towards other lives. The injustices of 16th-century capitalism, outlined in the first book,…
A series of six exhibitions from the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) is scheduled to be shown at the Art Gallery of West Australia (AGWA) over the next three years. This rotating display of the MOMA collection raises questions about what Australian public galleries are for and why they do what they do. At least two things have given rise to the partnership. The first is the arrival of a new director of AGWA, Stefano…
In the wake of a 2007 Senate inquiry into the shoddy 'carpetbagging' practices that work to rip off remote Aboriginal artists, one would think that the ethical alternative of remote art centres would be looking good. Yet, in the mainstream media at least, the centres find themselves more embattled, and the journalist whose work sparked the enquiry, The Australian's Nicolas Rothwell, has changed his mind about the centres' place in the greater Aboriginal art industry.…
