THE LEAP OF A JUMP Figure 1. The Jump, Parts 1 (2015) Hetain Patel, United kingdom b. 1980 Two-channel hd video installation, 16:9, colour, sound, ed. of 5 Duration: both videos 6 mins 32 sec Courtesy: The artist and Chattevjee and Lal, Mumba Figure 2. The Jump, Parts 2 (2015) Hetain Patel, United kingdom b. 1980 Two-channel hd video installation, 16:9, colour, sound, ed. of 5 Duration: both videos 6 mins 32 sec Courtesy: The artist and Chattevjee and Lal, Mumbai Figure 2.

“A national identity is an invention. There is no point asking whether one version of this essential Australia is truer than any other because they are all intellectual constructs, neat, tidy, comprehensible, and necessarily false.” [1] The concept of an ‘Australian national identity’ is one that acts as a meme and has evolved through its interaction with ‘environment’, however it cannot lend itself to a accurate essential ‘national identity’. This will be explained through a