Dialogues and Self Constructions is...

Dialogues and Self Constructions is a frame grown out of Alice Springs/Central Australia within known and sustained relations between the artist (Chris Barry) and her collaborators--and their families and fill outed kin. Alice Springs is a bi-cultural township. Aboriginal families have been permanent residents since time immemorial--in spite of successive eras of destructive governmental policies. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak states that agriculture alive is its own irreducible counter-culture She also states that tillage is a space of collision. In "Cross-Cultural