Jartti kari mukku ajjulunginyi / Other People’s Property (O.P.P.)

The Tennant Creek Brio transform mining maps, dead TVs, and frontier wreckage into new cultural claims—rejecting imposed “otherness” and forcing the settler gaze into confrontation. If their art is a shock, who’s really being unsettled?

As the art world fixates on the global present, a new wave of Australian and Chilean artists, critics, and historians are turning backward—embracing archives, provincialism, and forgotten genealogies. Is resisting contemporaneity the most contemporary move of all?

I have begun to desire noise. Noise that prompts. Maybe wounds. I want to remember something that feels tangible, and if I have no memory of how this feels I want to create one.