Stirring II

Stirring II

vol 30 no 4, 2010


Substantial essays asking questions about: the effect of the 'art as research' model in our universities, design and art for climate change, art and sport - odd bedfellows?, Australia's 'moat complex', identifying secret sacred Indigenous material, colour, sense impressions and 'theory', and welcoming a new museum of Chinese art in Sydney. Other content: image based profiles of Shen Shaomin, Ariel Hassan, Fiona MacDonald, twelve new art books reviewed, thirty years in the business of contemporary Australian publishing - where it has been and where it is going, 'Exposed' at the Tate Gallery and the Liverpool Biennial reviewed. Authors include: Jane Goodall, Kevin Murray, Alison Carroll, Jo Higgins, Wu Hung, Felicity Fenner, Djon Mundine, Catriona Moore, Peter Hill, Donald Brook.


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Resistance to Change: Art in the university environment

Author: Dr Jane Goodall, Feature

Novelist and former Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies in the College of Arts at the University of Western Sydney Jane Goodall responds to the new collection of essays edited by Brad Buckley and John Conomos called 'Rethinking the Contemporary Art School'. Goodall analyses the complexity and often dire times engendered by the incorporation of art schools into universities. However she is optimistic and suggests a first step to be a well-designed retreat system.



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