TERRITORIAL

Bernie Slater, Catriona Stanton, Raquel Ormella, Gary Lee, Silvia Velez, Franck Gohier

1 - 30 June 2007

On the surface, the difference between Australia’s two Territories could not be greater. The Northern Territory’s steaming tropical climate nurtures an open-air lifestyle that is all but foreign in the semi-alpine continental climate of Capital Territory. Canberra’s ‘utopian’ city plan and refined sense of socio-political order provides a stark contrast to Darwin’s chaotic optimism on the edge of Australia’s wildest frontier. Whether at the centre of ‘civilisation’ or the most far-flung corner of the continent, however, both Territories suffer a sense of isolation and alienation that is both physical and psychological. Territorial brings artists based in the ACT and NT together, whose work offers insights into the mind-sets of internal territory, autonomous territory, dark territory, peripheral territory and new territory. (David Broker, 2007)

Image: Territorial, 2007.