Artlink was earlier than its journalistic peers to notice the development of Australia’s most significant art movement, the Aboriginal art revolution, along with developments of global importance in a rising China and elsewhere in the Asia/Pacific region.
Ian North
Recognising that threats to our multi-species future lie at the heart of ecological debates in the Anthropocene era, this edition seeks to broadly reflect on human agency and concerns to engage with animal behaviour and consciousness. The “animal turn” is a belated response
to the crisis evolutionary theory has posed for humanism, mounting a challenge to biological and cultural determinism through the practices of artists and writers that channel animal-centric viewpoints.
Cover image: Hayden Fowler, Together Again (detail), installation and live performance, Sydney Contemporary 2017. VR designer: Andrew Yip, UNSW Art & Design. Photo: Joy Lai. Above: Mella Jaarsma, Dogwalk, 2015-16, cow, goat, sheep leather, stuffed feet, twelve costumes, created for the 20th Biennale of Sydney, 2016. Photo: Mie Cornoedus. Courtesy and © the artist
