Andrew Brooks

Andrew Brooks is a writer, artist, editor, and teacher who lives on unceded Wangal land. He is motivated by an ongoing commitment to study as a practice of everyday life and is interested in the politics of listening, the relationship between infrastructure and inequality, and histories of resistance and survival. He makes texts, exhibitions, events, and meals and is one half of the critical art collective Snack Syndicate.

The Island (Part 2)

Vernon Ah Kee

By Andrew Brooks — 7 February, 2020

This is part two of an extended review considering Vernon Ah Kee’s The Island at Campbelltown Arts Centre. You can read part one here.  At the centre of Vernon Ah Kee’s exhibition are two multiple channel video works—one old and one new—that bring into sharp relief how central policing and detention are to the preservation of…

The Island (Part 1)

Vernon Ah Kee

By Andrew Brooks — 5 February, 2020

This is part one of an extended review considering Vernon Ah Kee’s The Island at Campbelltown Arts Centre. ‘That’s not an accident.’  Lex Wotton ‘Settlers always think they’re defending themselves.’ Fred Moten The ‘island’ continent often referred to as Australia is underpinned by a carceral imagination. A national mythology casts settlers as a bunch of…