DIRTY WATER

Alison Alder

Friday 9th December 2011 - Saturday 11th February 2012

CCAS Gorman MAINSpace

Dirty Water is an exploration of nuclear activity in Australia. It raises many questions, and powerfully associates them with a shared nostalgia. Nuclear matter has often been tested, mined and dumped on Aboriginal land - with devastating consequences - but it has affected many more Australians, including all of Adelaide when a radioactive cloud from British nuclear tests at Maralinga passed over in October 1956. Six video projections are the main focus of Dirty Water, combining screen-printed backgrounds from old and new photographs with animations and nostalgic, at times poignant, music.

Image: Alison Alder, Ranger, 2011, Screen-print on stonehenge paper, 120cm x 94cm