2006-7
Work in four parts: stack of 2,000 off-set printed A1 posters, charcoal and white pastel drawing, found book with charcoal markings, colour photograph, dimensions variable.
Exh.: Regarding Fear and Hope , curated by Victoria Lynn, also including Yael Bartana, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, Willie Doherty, David Griggs, Lucía Madriz, R E A, Lázaro A Saavedra González, Sriwhana Spong, and Lynette Wallworth, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, and the Monash Faculty Gallery, Caulfield, Melbourne, 5 July - 28 July (Caulfield), 4 July - 25 August (Clayton);
In October 2006 I made an appointment to see four drawings by William Barak in the store-room of the Pacific collection at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. I later understood that one of those Barak drawings takes as its subject a march by Kulin men and women to the Acheron, from late 1861 to March 1862, a march which is also the subject of a re-enactment photographed by Carl Walter at Coranderrk in 1865 (a photograph now held in the State Library of Victoria). The work 2pm Sunday 25 February 1862 evolved in response to the encounter in that Berlin store-room. It evolved in relation both to the different visual systems of the Barak drawing and the Walter photograph, and to their shared mnemonic impulse. Small fragments of the Walter photograph were drawn as large charcoal drawings, and a fragment of one of these drawings became the image for the A1 poster.
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Each artist in the exhibition was asked to write a short text on their work and the exhibition concept.
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