For over two decades, Aotearoa New Zealand collective et al. have brought incisive reflections to bear on the role of ideology, power structures and models of group thinking. Composed of a range of shifting aliases and identities, they are recognised for complicating understandings of authorship and attribution. The first Australian survey of et al., epochal is the largest exhibition of the artists’ work outside of Aotearoa in 20 years since representing New Zealand at the 51st Venice Biennale (2005). Curated by MUMA’s Senior Curator Pip Wallis, this exhibition will present key bodies of work from the last 25 years reimagined as a new holistic installation. In their work, et al. digests a vast range of frameworks and fundamentalisms using strategies of citation, contradiction and obfuscation. Their singular installation practice, in the form of total environments, evokes spaces of collective instruction or indoctrination to highlight the dangers of complacency. Over a career spanning several decades as et al., and preceded by periods working under other alias’, et al.’s works have frequently mined data from bureaucratic or para-institutional sources to complicate ideas of truth and doctrine. The exhibition will be accompanied by a monograph published by MUMA and Monash University Publishing. The richly illustrated publication will include newly commissioned essays by Natasha Conland, Jan Bryant and Gwynneth Porter and provide a scholarly contribution to the understanding of et al.'s practice, including a comprehensive bibliography and history of exhibitions.