PICA ERASED

A 168-year-old strikethrough typeface commissioned for printing New South Wales Bill amendments is resurrected, bringing legacies of bureaucratic writing and governmental maintenance into dialogue with contemporary and decolonial applications of the strikethrough. Exhibition by Therese Keogh and Dennis Grauel invites a constellation of thinkers, poets and artists into conversation around meticulously re-fabricated metal type and a letterpress, configured to print ideas and texts from each conversation. Public programs feature guest speakers, printing workshops and open conversations exploring colonial administrative writing practices, while creative printed works examine modes of textual refusal and redress within the long shadow of violent colonial documents.