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A curatorial, consultancy and project management platform for contemporary art.
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In 2014, Littlewhitehead's interest in the unnerving public information announcements issued by the British Government during the Cold War continued their examination into the spectacle of nothing. The Cold War was a war of deterrence. There wasn’t the action and violence of previous wars. These public information broadcasts were propaganda, ways of reminding the public they were at risk from an invisible threat: both the invisible war and threat of nuclear fallout. Both these invisible threats have the potential to obliterate, yet the government advice on protection appears to be an absurd afterthought against such a force. In retrospect, it becomes apparent that the intent of the broadcasts was not to inform or to protect but rather an institutional mechanism to disseminate fear.
Although influenced by a definite period of British history, Inner Refuge is a blackly comic examination on the invisible fears that plague an individual and their inability to do anything about them.
Artist: Littlewhitehead
Location: Linden New Art , St Kilda, Naarm Melbourne
Curator: David Hagger
Presented in conjunction with BAProjects.
Photography: David Marks