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Goddard, Angela und Vivian Ziherl: GORDON HOOKEY Summoning Time. Painting & Politikill Transition in MURRILAND!, Wilco Art Books, Amersfoort 2017, ISBN 9781925455458

Table of Contents        ¦         Cover Text        ¦         Review⁄Abstract

Table of Contents

Vivian Ziherl, Angela Goddard, Derrick Cherrie: PREFACE -6-

Michael Aird: GORDON HOOKEY: Another History, Another Reality -11-

GORDON HOOKEY'S STUDIO, photographed by Carl Warner, 11 March 2017 -17-

MURRILAND! Canvas #1, photographic fold-out -21-

MURRILAND! Canvas #1, Gordon Hookey interviewed by Vivian Ziherl, 16 January 2017 -29-

MURRILAND! Canvas #1, Reference material -44-

HOW TO WRITE PAINTNG: A Conversation about History Painting, Language, and Colonialism with Gordon Hookey, Hendrik Folkerts, and Vivian Ziherl -53-

HISTORY OF ZAIRE by Tshibumba Kanda Matulu (selection) -68-

Johannes Fabian and Gordon Hookey, March 1027: HOOKEY AND TSHIBUMBA: INTER/VIEW/RE/INTER/VIEW -77-

Vivian Ziherl: TSHIBUMBA KANDA MATULU: History of Zaire (1973-74) -83-

Biography and Bibliography -87-

Acknowledgements -92-

Cover Text

One of the most important Australian artists of his generation, Gordon Hookey has a distinctive figurative painting style that is urgently political. Calling both politicians and constituents to account for the past and continuing oppression of Aboriginal people. Hookey pulls no punches with a style that is often darkly humorous, layered with visual puns and linguistic mischievousness. Hookey's cycle of monumntal paintings MURRILAND! (2015-ongoing) re-envisions the history of his home state of Queensland, Australia, surveying pre-colonisation to the present day, unravelling received versions of history and confronting non-Indigenous narratives. MURRILAND! was initiated when the art and research project Frontier Imaginaries proposed that Hookey consider Tshibumba Kanda Matulu's History of Zaire (1973-74) as the anchoring reference to a history of Queensland. Working in an artistic dialogue with Tshibumba's epic cycle of 101 paintings, Hookey commenced a series of monumental ten-metre-long canvasses that seethe with vivid historic, mythic, and vernacular tales. This publication compiles materials surrounding the first canvas in the series, coinciding with ist presentation in documenta 14. It features Hookey's source material; an essay by Aboriginal historian Michael Arid; a conversation between Gordon Hookey, Frontier Imaginaries curator Vivian Ziherl, and documenta 14 curator Hendrik Folkerts; and a dialogue between Gordon Hookey and anthropologist Johannes Fabian, who commissioned and documented Tshibumba's History of Zaire. This book is published as a collaboration between Griffith University, Frontier Imaginaries, documenta 14, and the Van Abbemuseum.