Identity and the Political

Collaborations between indigenous and non‐indigenous artists are most often regarded as politically symbolic moments of reconciliation. This article examines a very particular type of collaboration between Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels, a Warlpiri woman from central Australia, and Anne Mosey, a non‐indigenous artist who had come to live in the same community. A close examination of the nature of their interaction, both in the everyday and in the making of art, reveals the unstable nature of subjectivity itself. Each artist is formed in relation to the other and the broader environment in various forms of togetherness. It is proposed that the resulting artworks, which evoke the unstable nature of this relationship, deny the viewer the opportunity to feel completely ‘at home’. This is contrasted with the type of ‘inter‐human relations’ anticipated by Bourriaurd’s relational aesthetics

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