Making interventions

[Extract] Catalogue essay. Interventions explores what might happen when researchers, instead of writing about their subjects, take up visual and other media as a way of relating with others. The exhibition claims the possibility of Aboriginal people working creatively with ethnographers to generate new forms and styles of cultural production. Compelled by the idea that making - and viewing - art is a critical and productive form of social engagement, interventions offers new ways of taking up, and taking seriously, Aboriginal ways of seeing the world