Title

White Goods

Document Type

Creative Work

Publication Details

Kreckler, D. J. (2004). White Goods. Museum Of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW, June 2004, Biennale Of Sydney.

Exhibition images here.

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RESEARCH IMPACT STATEMENT

Research Background
Biennale Director, Isabel Carlos, originally commissioned White Goods for the 2004 Biennale of Sydney. The work was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney and included in Sub-terrain, curated by Hannah Matthews at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), 2006 Perth International Arts Festival, WA.

Research Contribution
White Goods comprises 9 large-scale photographs, choreographed tableaux vivants, that evoke possible moments in Australian history since European contact. The images are poetic renderings of a culture both lost and found offering “a bleak portrait of a community between time zones”.1 These images are performative fabrications constructed to question the ways in which we render history. The work was initially created in response to the Biennale’s theme of Reason and Emotion; the emotive response being often regarded as defined by geographic locality – in this case the semi rural and outer suburban areas of Perth.

1. Hannah Matthews 2006 Sub-terrain catalogue, PICA, 2006.

Research Significance
The Biennale of Sydney is Australia’s largest and most prestigious national and international festival of visual arts and includes a major catalogue and education program incorporating eduction packages distributed to all NSW secondary schools. Reviews of the work were included in Art in America1 and Broadsheet.2 Two of the works are now in private collections.

1. Lilly Wei, 2004, South by southeast: the 14th Sydney Biennale specially commissioned works, Art in America, 2004.
2. Adam Geczy, Blind (Ned) Leading The Blind, 
Broadsheet 35:1, South Australia 2006, p 51.

ANZSRC / FoR Code

1905 VISUAL ARTS AND CRAFTS

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