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KINGS CROSS 1340

Dave Drayton

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‘Kings Cross 1340’ treats postcodes not only as geographic markers, but as a numeric representation of the corresponding place name, and performs equations based around key figures in Australia’s colonised history commemorated in the country’s toponyms to point to the history of violence and dispossession.

Author’s note: ‘Kings Cross 1340’ treats postcodes not only as geographic markers, but as a numeric representation of the corresponding place name, and performs equations based around key figures in Australia’s colonised history commemorated in the country’s toponyms to point to the history of violence and dispossession.

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