The Guildhouse Collections Project at Flinders University Museum of Art, 2024

Sue Kneebone’s installation The Omega Enigma prompts reflection on how technological surveillance affects our lives in unseen ways and how activism lies not in providing definitive answers but in continuous questioning.

For The Disquiet, I was drawn to Mandy Martin’s Stop Omega campaign poster from 1974 – a stark and disquieting reminder of the Cold War era. My work The Omega Enigma is not only a material and archival investigation into the fading history of the ‘Stop Omega’ campaign, but also an investigation into the inscrutable truths and visceral tensions between what we can see yet can’t fully know.

The Disquiet presents newly commissioned artworks by South Australian artists Bin Bai, Stephanie Doddridge, Sue Kneebone, Olga Sankey and Truc Truong.

In developing their ideas for this exhibition, these artists drew inspiration from FUMA’s collection of political posters focusing on the works of the Progressive Art Movement (PAM) – a multi-arts group established at Flinders University in the 1970s. Informed by PAM’s agendas, motivations and artistic processes, the five contemporary artists have explored the relationship of their own practices to complex and urgent issues of the 21st century.

Install photography by Anna Fenech