This ferral Australis! : how terra Australis (a utopian terra nullius) became Ferral Australis (a dystopian terra numbskullius!) / by Mr John Hinds, Esq
- Bib ID:
- 6617527
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Hinds, John, 1950-, artist
- Description:
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- Fairfield, Vic : John Hinds, 2014
- 14 plates (concertina folded) : illustrations, facsimiles ; 3.33 m x 36 cm (concertina folded to 36 x 25.5 cm), covered with a canvas jacket.
- Summary:
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A concertina-bound artist's book, light-hearted in tone, which toys with ideas of feraI-ness (or ferality) in Australia, with sections covering animals, humans, and the climate. Images of the skulls of four examples of introduced domestic animals (horse, cat, dog, and pig) are overprinted on facsimiles of an early colonial newspaper. The human feral is evoked in the form of four 'recently discovered' mock-Shakespearean sonnets, allegedly written by a convict forger, overprinted on facsimiles of a First Fleet journal. The climate going feral on a summer's day is recast with a Shakespearean phrase ('sometimes too bright the eye of heaven shines') and images of human-faced suns overprinted on a school history textbook. The whole book has been antiqued and faux foxed (with tea), branded, perforated, and stamped, to further the historical conceit.
- Notes:
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- On the cover and title page the 'f' and 'l' of 'Ferral' are superimposed in red on the black-printed word 'Terra.'
- "Limited edition of 10 copies, hand printed and bound 2014 by the artist at Fire Station Print Workshop, Melbourne, on Magnani 'Incisioni' Ivory 310gsm, with collaged and altered pages from facsimiles of 'Sydney Gazette 1805'; facsimiles of the 'Journal of Lieutenant William Bradley of the Sirius, 1786-1792' and various Australian histories, 1971-2."--Colophon.
- National Library's SR copy is no. 3/10; artist's catalogue no. II/14/005.
- Binding:
- Plywood boards, covered with printed raw canvas, with a wrap and tie made from the same material. The book as issued is enclosed with a red wax seal.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
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- This ferral Australis! : how terra Australis became Ferral Australis
- This feral Australis!
- This terra Australis!
- Alternative title at foot of title page: or ... An ironic meta-narrative on the pluralist hybridity of the hegemonic colonialistic simulacra, referencing the semiotic intertextuality of a paradigmic Shakespearean narratology. A hyper-critical poststructuralist pastiche on the metaphysical extraction of urine!
- Exhibited:
- Firestation Print Studio Gallery, Armadale, Victoria, 20 October - 8 November 2014.
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2014
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