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Forced into images 2001

Artwork Forced into images this artwork made of DVD and Betacam SP formats: 9 minutes, colour, silent, created in 2001-01-01
Accession No.
2004.173
Date Created
2001
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Indigenous Australian Art
Edition
ed. 2/20
Media Category
Electronic media
Secondary Media Category
DVD
Medium
DVD and Betacam SP formats: 9 minutes, colour, silent
Place Created
Thornbury, Melbourne, Vic.
Credit Line
Purchased 2004. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation

Artist and activist Destiny Deacon embodies her work with a sense of playfulness that disarms her audience. Through her work she seeks to disrupt prevailing representations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that dehumanise and reinforce negative stereotypes. In Forced into images 2001, children are instructed to try on masks representing different archetypes; their refusal to conform to societal expectations of the characters they assume is echoed in Deacon’s ‘low-tech’ aesthetic as a defiance of expected audiovisual norms.

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© Destiny Deacon & Virginia Fraser/Copyright Agency

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Vernon Ah Kee / Kuku Yalanji/Waanyi/Yidinyji/Guugu Yimithirr people / Australia QLD b.1967 / Tall Man (still) (detail) 2010 / Purchased 2012. Queensland Art Gallery / © Vernon Ah Kee

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