Defense lawyer and critic of the war on terror and the new Australian laws associated with it, Phillip Boulten SC, opened Debra Dawes' exhibition Cover up on a warm November evening at Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney.
Dawes' new installation and works on paper explore the visual and metaphoric potential of camouflage as a device of deception in these times of Orwellian doublespeak.
Mehmet Adil and Jelle Van Den Berg are both artists and here the camera catches them in conversation. Their dialogue is screened at 9 minutes and examines the art and political issues inherent in a time of the War on Terror.
This short film extract summarises the impact on young people of juvenile detention centres. Over policing young people can criminalize them so that they are at risk of arrest, simply for hanging around and so risk ending up again in juvenile detention centres.
A short profile on the artist Jelle Van de Berg, or a wry bit of satire, which plays with the notion of artist as sleepless caged beast, his best work at night when dreams are reality and reason.
Police and Indigenous people in Australia don't see eye to eye. If a policing is far less menacing then it is likely that confrontation will not occur.
For the full 26 minute version of the film Can it hurt less?:
http://ro.uow.edu .au/creartspapers/7/
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