I would like to thank the many artists that have assisted with their time and generosity in this project, including Halil Altindere, Ghada Amer, Blak Douglas, Mona Hatoum, Servet Kocyigit, Tracey Moffatt, Nasim Nasr, and Shirin Neshat. Thank you also Alan Cruickshank for your support and advice and of course my close colleague Vicki Karaminas. I am grateful to Rey Chow for several invaluable comments and insights. To my sons, Marcel and Julian for their ongoing curiosity and interest in my projects. Thank you to my place of work, Sydney College of the Arts, of the University of Sydney. This project was also generously supported by a grant from Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.