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Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, The Law, 1992, acrylic on canvas

Stephen Muecke writes in relation to an experimental history:

In the case of Aboriginal history in Australia, the "discovery" of spaces beyond the frontier and before 1788 forced a radical reconceptualisation of national histories. The gap between the sense of what "we always knew" and initial non-sense of Aboriginal history is most often elided in accounts which proceed step by step, from one certainty to the next. To the extent that histories are considered "creative" they allow for the temporal or spatial gap between the established and the new, the mundane and the wondrous. They concede that the process of "making sense" depends on it, and that there is a surplus or a dimension of excess in every object. History will then operate with uncertainty as much as certainty, holding that every act of memory is also an act of forgetting. For what is forgotten is not the unfortunate down-side of memory, the lack; it is as systematic as the processes of memory.