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Opposite: Untitled. Collage of Australian Banknotes
is concerned with the promotion of human rights. The work is collage on
a 3 x 5 m surface. Its medium is Australian paper currency and as such
invokes a conceptual relationship with its subject matter of political
disappearances - a form of state sanctioned repression to subdue mass
protest over economic exploitation. The act of defacing money as an art
medium in this work has engaged in debate the attention of police, lawyers,
bureaucrats, politicians, journalists and academics among others.
Untitled was first publicised in 1984 on the Australian Broadcasting
Commission's national television news. |