Brook Andrew

The obligations most individuals have today with multiple global identity and cultural politics resembles, somewhat, a locust on heat. Focusing on the intentions of the mass, electronic and published media, I aim to interrogate contemporary global culture, teasing from populism to spew forth ironic takes on ‘globalism’, mixing and representing cultural identities from Australia, neighbouring countries of Asia and the ‘Americas’. Our obsession/anxiety with artificial and popular constructs of Australian Indigenous and other cultures, celebrity personality, war, supremacy, revolution and spiritual fulfilment are manifest through mass media/cultural activity, lighting up our lives with popular, mostly singular illusions and extrusions of something that is not always ‘us’/’me’.¹