Liquid Time

Verónica Tello

Editor's Introduction

History Retold

Kate O'Connor

Papermoon Puppet Theatre’s Mwathirika

Re-staging Chaos

Juan José Santos, translated by Verónica Tello

Ander and the Underground Chilean Cultural Scene

Rethinking About Exhibitions

Seng Yu Jin

*Towards a Mystical Reality* through Exhibitionary Space

Maps and Circulations

Anita Orzes

A Way of Expanding Biennials through Time and Space?

Time, After Time

Camila Galaz

Or How to Work with History

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Sculpting History

Anna Parlane

A Formal Analysis of Michael Stevenson's *The Fountain of Prosperity* (2006)

Aise Aise Hai

Shivanjani Lal

NOTE: This work is an oral history and is best experienced read out loud. First, there is the walk. Then, there is the river, a dark salt line cutting through the city. It is …

Editors’ Introduction

Giles Fielke and Cameron Hurst

In the fourth issue of *Index Journal*, the polyvalence of the word secession extends across six art historical papers of diverse style and subject matter. For some contributors, …

1900—Pyrrhic Victory

Ilona Sármány-Parsons

The Press Campaigns Surrounding the Faculty Paintings

Anthony Mannix

Anthony White

Secessions from Systems

Fugitive Abstraction

Scott Robinson

Gordon Bennett’s Stripe Series

Australia in the World’s Art Colonies

Rex Butler & A.D.S. Donaldson

The World in Australia's Art Colonies

Destruction or Secession?

Stefania Portinari

Critiques of Capitalism and Nationalism at the Venice Biennale

Refusal as Repair

Amelia Wallin

Reflections on *Disorganising*

In the Soil that Nurtures Us

Suzannah Henty

A Certain Death to the Colonial Myth

Abstract Sculpture or Colonial Monument?

Nikolas Orr

Deception and Reception in the Commemorative Landscape of Newcastle, Australia, 1970 to 2020

Digging for Honey Ants

John Kean

Revisiting the Papunya Mural Project

The Slapstick Routine of Parisian Monumentalism

Ursula Cornelia de Leeuw

Robert Desnos and Jacques-André Boiffard’s “Pygmalion and the Sphinx” (1930)

Towards Transformative Propaganda

Iva Glisic

A History of Student Activism at the Australian National University (2020)

Thinking the Soul Beyond Property

Aodhan Madden

On Susan Howe’s Souls of the Labadie Tract

Editors’ Introduction

Desmond Manderson and Ian McLean

The movement formally known as “law and literature” has evolved from a relatively benign interest, almost a hobby really, into a dynamic interdisciplinary project which draws on …

The Dancer from the Dance

Desmond Manderson

Images and Imaginaries

Law-less Silence

Clare Fuery-Jones

Extraordinary Rendition, the Law, and Silence in Edmund Clark’s Negative Publicity

No Stickers on Hard-Hats, No Flags on Cranes

Agatha Court

How the Federal Building Code Highlights the Repressive Tendencies of Power

Figuring Folk Justice

Helen Hughes

Francis Howard Greenway’s Prison Scenes from Newgate, Bristol, 1812

Earle’s Lithography and the Force of Law

Keith Broadfoot

In Augustus Earle’s 1826 lithographic print, *View from the Sydney Hotel*, a representative of the law turns his back on a lone Aboriginal man in the foreground of the image. Is …

Spectropolitics and Invisibility of the Migrant

Dorota Gozdecka

On Images that Make People “Illegal”

Emanuel de Witte’s Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft

David S. Caudill

Images of Life as Religion, Individualism, and the Critique of Legal Ideology

Forensic Listening in Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Saydnaya (the missing 19dB)

James Parker

This essay offers a critical account of Lawrence’s Abu Hamdan’s *Saydnaya (the missing19db)*, which debuted at the 13th Sharjah Biennial and was central to the artist’s Turner …

Murals as a Play On Space in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Samuel Blanch

Iranian street murals are mined for insight into the political and religious proclivities of the Islamic Republic. As a function of sovereign power over physical street space and …

Clothes Maketh the Man

Shane Chalmers

Mimesis, Laughter, and the Colonial Rule of Law

Introduction

The Editors

The world of the journey furnished a symbolic text where each culture read its own intentions. Paul Carter’s words, written on the cusp of the bicentenary of …

Guan Wei’s “Australerie” Ceramics and the Binary Bind of Identity Politics

Alex Burchmore

This paper considers Australian artist Guan Wei's use of Aboriginal Australian-inspired motifs in seven related series of porcelain vases and dishes created in 2012 and 2014 in …

Good Representation

Ella Cattach and Elliot Yates

The philosophical conception of art as a domain of *exceptional*, *problematic* freedom has found itself in tension with the growing contemporary demand for “good representation” …