Empowering Identity
Dennis Golding
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons)

Empowering Identity
In a new two-channel video, Golding pursues a critical view of social, political and cultural representations of Aboriginal Australian history and contemporary experiences. Often referencing science-fictional narratives through the visual motif of the cape, Golding explores relationships between figures of popular culture such as superheroes and Australian colonial histories. As the video often depicts a gaze of a gaze, Golding challenges categorical boundaries from Indigenous and non-Indigenous markings of country and experiences led by difference of race, culture, social class and histories.