Facebook Twitter Pinterest Julie Gough stands in front of a work displayed as part of Tense Past, which looks back at 25 years of the artist’s videos, sculptures and design. “I don’t want to keep beating my head against the wall.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Julie Gough’s work is displayed among artefacts from the genocidal black war, in an exhibition that lands like a punch in the stomach. After an afternoon spent among Gough’s work, it’s difficult to understand why anyone would want to broadcast that history. “‘Heritage Tasmania’ automatically means non-Aboriginal heritage … things are really askew here.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest In We Ran/I Am (2007) by Julie Gough. They’re like a kingdom upon themselves.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gough’s 2008 artwork, titled Some Tasmanian Aboriginal Children Living With Non-Aboriginal People Before 1840.

Source: The Guardian June 27, 2019 18:15 UTC