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The Generosity of a Light Touch

For the more than 15 years that the Australian organisation Experimenta Media Arts has metamorphosed through various ideological, aesthetic and technological identities, its one constant has been a passionate involvement with and championing of the new and experimental. Prototype, exhibited in Melbourne in 2002, carried on this tradition, more than living up to the title.
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Lawrence Daws: From Mandala to Full Circle
Australian artist Lawrence Daws speaks of seven phases of his work, based on specific themes that have guided his development as an artist. There has been a gradual trend in his work from themes of archetypal symbolism and exotic portent towards the more local and personal.
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Uncertain Terrain
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Four books on SA artists

Annette Bezor: A Passfonate Gaze
Richard Grayson 2000

James Darling: Instinct, Imagination, Physical Work
Daniel Thomas 2001

Nick Mount: Incandescence
Margot Osborne 2002
Wakefield Press/SALA

Greg Johns
John Neylon, Macmillan 2002

Ian Hamilton
The Possibility Forum - Institutional Change and Modest Proposals

This text takes up some of the broader concerns of Tony Bond's initial questions to an Australian panel at ARCO 2002 Madrid, particularly 'can there be a benign global capitalism?' and 'how do we address the value of exchanges between artists?'.

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Scaling Up at ACCA
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Arte Povera: Art from Italy 1967 - 2002
Museum of Contemporary Art 23 August - 10 November 2002
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African Marketplace and Reporting the World: John Pilger's Great Eyewitness Photographers
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Macmillan, 2002

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Asia Pacific Triennial 2002 - Starry Night
When talking about non-Indo-European cultures, we are taking on board profound differences in how we arrange our worlds. The 2002 Asia Pacific Triennial endeavours to present art from these cultures through various treatments of time and space relations.
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Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 18 Sept - 20 October 2002
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