not sure what the subtext is here, ruark. but there's no claiming going
on. and i have no authority to make claims. displacement, pain, and
textual breakdown.
this applies to the city as well as the country. the spatiality is the
colonisation as well. the terms of reference are survey markers.
explorers ego-documentation.
pretending to have a voice but kidding only 'our/selves'. myself etc.
this is the core of anti-pastoral, at least in the 'australian' sense.
the gallery space of the urban is where crimes of appropriation and
occupation take place under a guise of recognition and apparent
sympathy. even an empathy of spirit - the greatest insult. respect is
what's asked for, but rarely given. location of the unified self in this
is problematic. think you not?
best,
jk
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