Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation
Jennifer Loureide Biddle
Duke University Press
Since the ‘Intervention’, that began in 2007 in the Northern Territory digital media works, sculpture and paintings were created from the Tangentyere artists, Rhonda Unurupa Dick’s experimentation, pieces from the Tjanpi Desert Weavers, the use of yurlpa (ochre) in a contemporary context, the multi-platform art of Yarrenyty Arltere artists and “happenings” in the outback. This book looks closely at new and ongoing practices in a series of ‘micro-histories’ without the airs or definitive promises of a didactic social history or art book. Biddle notes that the windows into these dedicated projects and works of art don’t add to the cumulative cannon of contemporary modern art; “not only do these works fail to comply but they instigate ways of thinking, feeling, being that cannot be readily assimilated.”
