Author(s): Trent Walter + Brook Andrew

Art

Dual/Duel is a collaborative artists' book by Brook Andrew and Trent Walter, drawn predominantly from the State Library of Victoria's pictures collection. The book's form is a series of juxtaposed image propositions whose assembly form new relational narratives connecting the artists cultural perspectives of Wiradjuri/Sri Lankan/European with issues of conflict, immigration, complicity and power. Dual/Duel is the result of a Georges Mora Fellowship awarded to the artists in 2014. The publication includes an interview with Maxine Briggs, Koori Librarian at the State Library of Victoria (SLV), Australia, who worked closely with the artists on Australian Indigenous protocols that apply to SLV photographic collections. Dual/Duel creates a new space for looking through often cliché, but specific, images of power and narrative. The artists' book simultaneously creates and examines pictorial connections that explore the implications of these associations to form new narratives about how we might begin to explain the histories they conjure.