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Tristen Harwood

ARM’s Portrait building from street level, Swanston Street, Melbourne. Photo: Lauren Burrow.

Forgetting Architecture and the new Aboriginal Kitsch

Lauren Burrow & Tristen Harwood, un Magazine, May 2018

Craftier than producers of earlier kitsch, producers of new Aboriginal kitsch position themselves as socially minded, decolonising agents. New Aboriginal kitsch mimics characteristics of decolonisation in an attempt to fool people into celebrating colonising forces, by making them think they are celebrating decolonising forces. It dislocates the ethical component of the formative action from the aesthetic, reaching for pure affect.

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