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WHAT CAN MAKE UP FOR LACK OF TALENT

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  WHAT CAN MAKE UP FOR LACK OF TALENT Does art derive its validity from the skill of the creator's hand, or from the cultural scaffolding that forces our conscious spotlight onto the object? This gallery space has thrown down a direct challenge. Dominating the centre wall, glowing in bright white neon above the shattered glass and the Campbell's Soup Can, is a raw, uncomfortable question: "WHAT CAN MAKE UP FOR LACK OF TALENT?"  This neon sign acts as the ultimate cognitive mirror, forcing us to reconcile the two extremes hanging on either side of the gallery. The Postmodern Answer: Frame and Hype Look at the soup can sitting in the spotlight. Postmodernism, driven by Andy Warhol and Pop Art, gave a cynical, revolutionary answer to this neon question: Context, branding, and institutional framing make up for a lack of talent. Postmodernism declared that you don't need the masterly brushwork of the Renaissance or the sublime emotional intensity of Mark Rothko. An art...

Simulacrum Bark Hut Batwoman

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  Bark Hut Batwoman Simulacrum Northern Territory Gothic Shadows Poem Video Bark Hut Inn Bat Woman Arrives Brutally dispossessed. Placed onto a reserve. And promised rations. Detering the minority from becoming the majority. All stand-down when aesthetics enters the room. Imagined realities. Perspective from the darkness. Obsessions, failure, and virtue. Anxieties, fear, and panic. How did we know the world? Our ghosts of opportunity and precious wealth. Our unspeakable and inexpressible horror. To evoke and convey our superior taste. One-off sponsorship You Tube

Simulacrum Voices from the Ant Hill

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Northern Territory Gothic Simulacrum Voices from the Ant Hill Whispers Whispering at Sunrise Poem One-off sponsorship You Tube

Ideas of Lux

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  By its very nature unpredictable Intentionally distorted to make sense Lost in the experience of being sublime When the sky rests down User Paid For Lies and Deceit Fully Automated Luxurious Capitalism Turbocharged Capitalism and Galactic Tourism By its very nature unpredictable. Intentionally distorted to make sense. Lost in the experience of being sublime. Each evening, when the sky rests down. Our users paid for our lies and deceit. A Promised Land. Of fully automated luxurious capitalism. And our future. Turbocharged capitalism and galactic tourism. This is the Light of Lux One-off sponsorship You Tube

Simulacrum Jabiru Crocodile Catharsis

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  Jabiru Crocodile Catharsis Simulacrum Northern Territory Gothic THEN POEM VIDEO One-off sponsorship You Tube

Simulacrum Jabiru Poolside

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  Jabiru Poolside Simulacrum Northern Territory Gothic Video Poem One-off sponsorship You Tube

Simulacrum Bark Hut Girl

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  Northern Territory Gothic Simulacrum Bark Hut Girl Video Poem One-off sponsorship You Tube

Australian Gothic

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  The land  Where there are no crumbling castles  No bloodsucking vampires No ancient monsters No antiquity Too immature for proper history The terror is unseen The terror has been repressed  Through imperial violence, fear, and subversion Mass transportation to the dungeon of the world 50 thousand years  Then came The water buffalo The missionaries Pastoral activity Uranium mining Forestry Tourism Sheer relentless pressure Bringing forth crisis and social breakdown And obligated to make way We sense their dread As they combined the elements to create a threat A social, religious, and physical threat The darkest mountain The deepest canyon There is no escape THEN There are those who predicted the threat Those who compose the realities of impending horror  Those who shepherd the flock into their shelters As we return to our nooks and anticipate their foretold slaughter When you feel an object is both alive and not alive Consecrated Special powers Invisible ...