New museums, new agendas

New museums, new agendas

Vol 22 no 4, 2002


A nation's museums are an index of its understanding of itself. We examine the controversies and debates surrounding new museums in Canberra and Melbourne which have challenged the conventional wisdom. Charles Esche proposes that a new breed of less tightly prescriptive art institutions can be catalysts for changing societal attitudes. Also new practice in digital media, fashion as art, profiles of Peter Callas, Lawrence Daws, Julia Ciccarone, Kate Breakey, and Robin Best. Reviews of Documenta and Site and Sight in Singapore.


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The Generosity of a Light Touch

Artist: Ms Shiralee Saul, feature

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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