Frontier

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Tent. The Life of Lines, Brisbane, QUT Art Museum, 14-05-2016, 14-08-2016 ; Brisbane, Institute of Modern Art, 14-05-2016, 09-07-2016. - Groepstentoonstellng documenteert werk van het multi-platform project Frontier Imaginaries onder leiding van de Australische curator en criticus Vivian Ziherl. - The frontier marks the point at which the soaring ideals of modernity touch ground, indicating how the “outside” was produced, exploited, and policed through colonialism. Frontier Imaginaries is a research and art commissioning project dedicated to studying the ongoing significance of the frontier in the global era. Launching from the standpoint of the settler-colony, the project touches various cities around the globe. In each edition contributors participate in remapping the global dramas of property and progress, seeking to challenge their precepts in the process.