Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia’s First Peoples Brand / Loqi with Joan Jonas and John

with Joan Jonas and John Baldessari at the University of California

and thus is not about the past

Budding artists just have to pick up their pencils

a collection of enduring graceful invitations to some essential ideas

Her captions accompany beautiful photographs of Benning’s work

Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia’s First Peoples Brand / Loqi with Joan Jonas and JohnFatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the continent well into the twentieth century. The consequences still echo today in Aboriginal health and life expectancy. Many historians have