White Goods 2004
White Goods is a work of speculative fiction; four of the seven images in the series are shown above and were installed at the Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts for the 2015 exhibition Accident and Process. A Visions of Australia touring survey exhibition. From left to right/ top to bottom: White Goods 4, 6, 2, and 3.
White Goods, “… contemplates the fundamental inability of a dominant culture to ‘see’ another and to recognise concentrated degrees of abuse. Kreckler is interested here in the condition of the crowd – its ordered informality before acts of violence, its final submission to the simple, good things in life at the expense of intervention on behalf of others. It is, to a degree, analogous to our willing inability to see what lies before our eyes – the strange (the horrendous) is absorbed within the everyday business of a spectacle-based culture.”
Blair French, DEREK KRECKLER: ALLEGORIES OF VISION
First published in Isabel Carlos, curator and ed., On Reason and Emotion: The 2004 Biennale of Sydney, exhibition catalogue, Sydney: The Biennale of Sydney, 2004
“on matters related to race, the Racial Contract prescribes for its signatories an inverted epistemology, an epistemology of ignorance, a particular pattern of localized and global cognitive dysfunctions (which are psychologically and socially functional), producing the ironic outcome that whites will in general be unable to understand the world they themselves have made.”
― Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract