Modern Australian

High Street (After Ruscha) ruminates on memory, community and culture

  • Written by David Nichols, Senior Lecturer - Urban Planning, University of Melbourne
High Street (After Ruscha) ruminates on memory, community and cultureA still from Daniel Crooks' High Street (After Ruscha) 2017. Single channel video, 2:1, 4K, stereo, 17 minutes 52 seconds. Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery.

Daniel Crooks’ High Street (After Ruscha) is easily described yet by no means simple. A 17-minute video, it pans along the preposterously unimaginatively...