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...incorporated into an Aztec fire ceremony. For the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, torchbearers donned traditional Korean clothing to celebrate the nation's heritage. Twelve years later, on the way to Sydney, an Aboriginal field -hockey star kicked off the domestic leg of the relay from Uluru (Ayers Rock) in the heart of the Australian outback. (See photos of the Olympic torch in Europe...
...series suspended emblems of Aboriginal identity and dispossession in the same liquid-blue sky Laing sent her brides flying through. For her most recent series, the Sydney-based Laing traveled to the desert community of Balgo, where she set fire to Ikea-style furniture arranged in the shape of Uluru. "This set up a conversation between these two places," she wrote, "the histories we share, and have inherited; and where we are at this moment in time...
...readers who like their short stories with a Roald Dahl-ish twist, Every Move You Make could be a form of Chinese water torture. As the title character of Mrs Porter and the Rock, about a widowed suburbanite dragged by her son to Uluru, complains: "Nothing had happened." But those who relax into Malouf's dreamy prose, the rewards are pleasurable and profound. In The Valley of Lagoons, we enter the stillness of the Gulf country through the consciousness of a 16-year-old boy to discover "an interweaving of close but distant voices so dense that they become...
...Garden, 1835, shows how Glover tried to plant a corner of England in the wilds of Tasmania, so Laing's Burning Ayer #1, 2003, illustrates a similar impulse to Europeanize the Outback. Here the photographer has shot a mountain of Ikea-type furniture dusted in ocher and shaped like Uluru - a supremely surreal image: Laing had the mountain flown in to a remote region of Western Australia, and the photo is untouched by any digital wand...
...Then what? Well, the torch came to town. Over months, it had wound its way from Australia's most ancient icon, that sandstone monolith known as Uluru - it used to be called Ayers Rock - to its most modern, the Opera House here in Sydney. On the afternoon it was going to arrive at the harbor, I was walking around at Circular Quay. Two Aboriginal homeless people had already taken up positions on a bench. They were sitting in the shadow of this immense ocean liner out of Nassau called the Crystal Harmony, a big boat full of titans with tickets...