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"The Suspect Backpack makes a strong creative contribution in terms of locative media, sound art, and activist art... The really major creative contribution is the psychological and emotional space that is opened by placing the work on the boundary of private listening and public performance. The audience navigation of this boundary generates the experience of empathy that the artist has intended, and the possibility to use emotion to influence future thinking and behaviour is the holy grail of activist art."

Professor Stephen Barrass, University of Canberra