Gavin Hipkins

The Precinct (2018)

10 min 40 sec (excerpt) of 1 min 35 secSingle channel / 2 channel installation / Digital Video / Colour / Black & White / Sound

Utopian and dystopian visions collide in a futuristic novel from Australia’s colonial past. Brisbane’s first published work of fiction The Curse and its Cure (1894) provides the dual setting for a rediscovery of the city’s cultural precinct today.

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