News from the Front

Its less than a centimetre long, but the weapon of mass distraction on Artlinks March cover was deemed unacceptable for US audiences. For those who missed the media frenzy, our US distributors refused to put the Adelaide & Beyond issue of Artlink on the shelves of Barnes and Noble. The reason given was the completely nude male on the cover (would a hat have rendered it incompletely nude? Would it have mattered if it was a female nude, neatly packaged away?).

More from this Issue

Art of the Biotech Era: Art, Culture and Biotechnology

Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide 27 February - 3 April 2004

Julianne Pierce

Joan Kerr, Art Historian: February 1938 - February 2004

Joan Kerr, Art Historian, February 1938 - February 2004

Craig Judd

Consuming Pleasure

Helen Grace and Stephanie Britton

Temperature

Museum of Brisbane 11 March - 23 May 2004

Susan Ostling

2004 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Contemporary Photomedia

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 29 February - 30 May 2004

Maria Bilske

Songs of Australia: Volume 16

Aleks Danko The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia Melbourne (and touring) 7 February - 18 April 2004

Adrian Montana

Food Slut > Manifesto

Food increasingly became alienated from the body over the latter half of the twentieth century. Its material, its preparation, its distribution and its consumption became hostage to the banal aesthetics of the food stylist, the aridity of cultural studies and the repressive partnership of the public health zealot and the liability lawyer. Paul van Reyk here presents a manifesto on the food slut, a model for the examination of current food consumption trends in our society. As he states, a food slut is never indifferent to food, any more than a sex slut is indifferent to sex.

Paul Van Ryke