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Issue 10:4 | December 1990 | 10th Birthday Issue
10th Birthday Issue
Issue 10:4 | December 1990

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Return to the Wunderkammer
Eve Sullivan interviews Lisa Slade Curator of the 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object 
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Let's boycott all biennales!
Ian Milliss on why biennales, like wars, are the continuation of politics by other means 
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The bicycle as dissident object
Laura Fisher on the bicycle in contemporary art 
 
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George Gittoes and the social turn in Afghanistan
Darren Jorgensen on Australian art in a war zone 
 
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Material thinking and sustainability in contemporary ceramics
Altair Roelants on critical new directions in ceramics from Australia and New Zealand 
 
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On First Nations agency in our European-based cultural institutions
Léuli Eshraghi interviews First Nations curators and artists Tess Allas (UNSW Art and Design), Bruce McLean (QAGOMA), Kimberley Moulton (Museum Victoria) and Rosanna Raymond (SaVAge K’lub for APT8) 
 
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Artist-run initiative: Fontanelle moving to Port Adelaide
Eve Sullivan in conversation with directors Brigid Noone and Ben Leslie
 
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The new National Gallery Singapore: A monument for intersecting histories
Alan Cruickshank on branding the city-state as a global city for the arts 
 
Looking Back: A decade of Artlink 1981 -1991
History of the trials and triumphs of Artlink over its first decade - a wonderful achievement for a small regional arts magazine.
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It's on Disc! Magazine Production on the Desktop
Producing a quality art magazine on computer without moving from your desk. The impact of electronic publishing and traditional methods. Explores publishing art magazines.
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Biennale of Sydney Authority = Potential
The last 10 years has seen a noticeable empowerment of the visual art institutions in Australia. As recently as the late seventies the Sydney Biennale still sometimes happened every three years. In 1980 the Adelaide Festival was as yet innocent of Artist's Week and the Adelaide Biennial.
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Artists Week
Artists' Week was established in 1982 as an initiative of the South Australian visual arts community in reponse to the poor emphasis on visual art in the Adelaide Festival Program and to the growing need for forums to discuss art.
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A Critical Evaluation of the First Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Art Gallery of South Australia Adelaide 2 March - 22 April 1990 Confined exclusively to Australian art - the Whitney Biennial is a model - the Adelaide Biennials will both complement the international Biennale of Sydney and posit alternatives to the surveys of current art represented by the biennial Australian Perspecta exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
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Quo Vadis Sculputre: The Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial
The Melbourne Festival and the Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial reflections, projections, prognosis....
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To Market, To Market: The second Contemporary Art Fair
Held Melbourne Royal Exhibition Building Melbourne 21- 24 June 1990, the success of the second Contemporary Art Fair surprised just about everyone.
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Getting the Picture? The Visual Arts in Australia in the Electronic Media
There's no climate of criticism which takes the media themselves seriously as art, so it's hardly surprising if the media return that compliment to art.
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Arts on the ABC: Chris Westwood and the New Deal for Radio National and ABC FM
Chris Westwood and the New Deal for Radio National and ABC FM.
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Ausgraph 90 Arts and Video Show
Over 100 individuals, companies and institutions contributed to the success of teh Ausgraph 90 Art and Video Program.
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Contemporary Soviet Art
How can one describe contemporary Soviet fine art? How is it connected with the heritage of the avant garde of the revolutionary years? How are they related to the urgent problems of international art?
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What It Is Not; Misreading the East
The Wall is down. The east is no longer red. Did we win? The Washington Post has called it the end of history, so something must be happening.
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Art in Vietnam Now
A report from a week's visit to art schools, museums, galleries and artists' organisations in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City October 1990.
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Treading Terra Technic
Advanced Technology Artworks by Paula Dawson and Jill Scott.
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Ripples from the Margin: Refractory Speculations on the Myths of Oz
About 95% of registered Australian architects are male. As writers on architecture, women are most likely to be found in our 'traditional' role as hagiographers - disciplinary 'handmaidens to the Heroes' - chronicling the erection of Icons and the cultural penetration of Canons - often described as 'seminal works'.
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Art in Space
As artists strive to turn outer space iinto a new canvas for creative expression, some of their proposals have provoked controversy.
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Fred Truck's ArtEngine
A case study in the problematics of software art. The author test drives Fred Truck's ArtEngine a robot artwork that makes art. (sic). The work is in the form of a sizable piece of software written for the Mac2 computer.
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The Many Faces of Design
A festival for schools initiated by the Key Centre for Design at RMIT aims to encourage young people to explore aspects of their human made environment.
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Traces of Light: An Interview with Thierry Kuntzel
The slide from film to video may perhaps one day be compared to the move away from the alexandrine and toward free verse poetry - out of this there emerged a reflection on the literary fate of language and the same is happening today for the image.
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The Route You Take...
Photographs of Fiona Hall's work The route you take... installation shot and details, aluminium soft drink cans Contemporary Art Centre October 1990 Australian Centre for Photography November - December 1990
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Powder: Four Adelaide Sculptors
Exhibition review Powder: Jam Factory Bullring Adelaide South Australia October 1990
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Breaking the Toy
Exhibition review Zerospace at the Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide South Australia 1990
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A Lyrical Containment: Sculpture by Nicole Page-Smith
Exhibition review Nicole Page-Smith Tony Oliver Gallery Melbourne Victoria
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Art and Architecture Thesaurus
Book review Art and Architecture Thesaurus: Toni Peterson (director) New York: Oxford University Press Published on behalf of the Getty Art History and Information program 1990 Set of three volumes ISBN0-19-506403 -8
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The Kakadu National Bank
Loggers can learn to love trees......
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Moana Project Space becomes a Fremantle Success story
Eve Sullivan in conversation with director Dale Buckley about a new gallery in the basement of a former department store in Fremantle 
 
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