Benjamin Bradley

This project, Sparse ad hoc Networks for the Desert, establishes a specific postcolonial politics of mobility within the context of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in remote South Australia. The term ‘postcolonial’ is considered to describe a long and destructive phase of subjugation which began at the point of contact between European settler/explorers and Australia’s First Peoples, one which is still in operation and far from resolution. In relation to this context, mobility is considered as an entanglement of historical circumstances, current political conditions, and the embodied experiences of myself as an artist, living and working in a remote community. This has been explored in the artwork through photography practices, and in the accompanying exegesis, through a ficto-critical approach to writing.