John Weiley’s Autopsy on a Dream was physically chopped to pieces in 1968. How could this forensic indictment of the politics and broken dreams behind the Opera House return from the grave, to stand now as an ironic celebration of the project?
Autopsy on a Dream is raw evidence of the bastardry by which Australian politicians and bureaucrats can stuff anything they touch. In this case, the wreckers were the NSW government functionaries who eventually drove Jørn Utzon off the Opera House Project.