Backyard Culture

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Wardlipari Homeriver: Vulnerable observations
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Uncle Lewis Yarluburka O’Brien and Ali Gumillya Baker

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Local colour: Dyeing and women's wealth
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Julie Ewington

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Hi-vis commodities: A body corporate's toxic economy
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Tessa Laird with Debris Facility

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Revisiting colour problems: Emily Vanderpoel, Hilma af Klint, Becca Albee, Clare Milledge
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Amelia Wallin

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Queer uses of colour: A tinted hermeneutics
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Abbra Kotlarczyk

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Meet Lisa Walker in her workshop: VR in the museum
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Justine Olsen and Prue Donald

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Crown Resorts
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Eugenie Lee's Seeing is Believing: VR in pain management
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Dylan DeLosAngeles

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Artificial imagination: Deepfakes from latent space
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Sean Dockray

Published 01 December 2018

Questions of memory, history and identity in the work of Leandro Salomone.

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Theatre Oneiron Crosses Cultural Bridges
Feature
Fotis Kapetopoulos

Theatro Oneiron (Theatre of Dreams) a Greek Australian performance ensemble established in Adelaide in the mid 1980s is the result of dedication and vision. Photo from production of 'The Courtyard of Miracles' 1991 included in the article.

Published June 1991
Sprirituality Aboriginality
Feature
Sylvia Kleinert

An exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal art 'Aboriginal Art and Spirituality' opened at the High Court of Australia in 1991. The exhibition to tour after its opening in Canberra.....All of the works in the exhibition speak quite overtly about the highly problematic intervention of the missions, the politics of racism and the way in which Aboriginal spirituality will always remain linked to the land.

Published June 1991
Metaphors of Multiculturalism
Feature
Steve Routoulas

Palimpsest...Vision of a multicultural Australia. An exhibition co-ordinated by the Multicultural Arts Trust of South Australia, December 1990 Chesser Gallery Adelaide. Great colour photos.

Published June 1991
Failsafe Opera
Review
Mary-Anne Haddad

Exhibition Review: Performance Installation by Andrew Petrusevics and Chris Gaston
Adelaide Univsersity Union Art Gallery
7 - 21 March 1991

Published June 1991
Ethnicity and Excellence in the Arts
Feature
Sneja Gunew

One of the leading debates in Cultural Studies around the world deals with the issues of cultural difference or ethnicity in relation to concepts of a national culture.

Published June 1991
Collaborative Impressions
Feature
Nola Routoulas

Exhibition review: Works by Nola Routoulas, Helen Karpathakis, Nora Mantzioris and Alexandra Akritidis.
Artzone Gallery, Adelaide South Australia April 1991

Published June 1991
Archetypal Strategies
Review
Susan Sheridan

Exhibition Review: Josie Starrs, Margaret Worth, Fay Poole and Barbara Zerbini
Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide South Australia
June 1990 and touring to regional galleries.

Published June 1991
Film Makers Davor Dirlic and Laszlo Dudas
Feature
Anna Epstein

Fortunately the artists are capable of overturning all the newly acceptable conceits about them, and they might deny most of the assumptions that multicultural academics make about them, whilst still giving a new window on our world, as indeed, all good art from anywhere will.

Published June 1991
A New Multiculturalism-in-the-Arts Program for South Australia
Feature
Stephanie Britton

In December 1990 the South Australian Government announced a new 'Multiculturalism-in-the-Arts' Program to encourage major arts organisations in receipt of government funding to increase their activities for people from linguistic and culturally diverse backgrounds.

Published June 1991
How Clay Speaks for Neville Assad
Feature
Kevin Murray

The alphabet was invented, so they say, in Lebanon. To some Lebanese, their country represents an un-broken link with the birth of human history. Non-Aboriginal Australians, by contrast, share stories of interrupted family ties, of exile and forgetting. How then do these Lebanese relate to life in Australia?

Published June 1991
Community Arts in Fairfield and Cabramatta
Feature
Meg Simpson

The Fairfield Community Arts Network is a community - based organisation which aims to develop cultural awareness in Fairfield with particular emphasis on the multicultural nature of the area.

Published June 1991
Interview with James Mollison
Feature
Meredith Smith

The Office of Multicultural Affairs talks for Artlink with James Mollison, Director of the National Gallery of Victoria March 1991.

Published June 1991
 
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