Luk Luk Gen!

Cover of Luk Luk Gen!
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Other Suns: Cult Sci-fi Cinema and Art

Fremantle Arts Centre

Review
Francis Russell

Published 23 August 2019
1.126
Angela Valamanesh: About Being Here

Jam Factory

Review
Liv Spiers

Published 23 August 2019
1.166
FEM-aFFINITY

Arts Project Australia

Review
Jacqueline Millner

Published 23 August 2019
NAVA
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Rachel O'Reilly: The Gas Imaginary | Material Place: Reconsidering Australian Landscape

UNSW Galleries

Review
Ann Finegan

Published 23 August 2019
1.126
The Housing Question

Penrith Regional Gallery

Review
Chloé Wolifson

Published 23 August 2019
1.126
Noriko Nakamura: The force that the warrior adopts during the evolution of the pale pink rose

CAVES

Review
Amelia Wallin

Published 11 July 2019
UTS
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The Hidden Garden: Travis de Vries

Gallery Lane Cove

Review
Djon Mundine

Published 03 July 2019
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Virginia Cuppaidge: The Nature of Abstraction

Newcastle Art Gallery

Review
Una Rey

Published 01 July 2019

Exhibition Review: Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute Adelaide South Australia November 1990 - June 1991

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Sprirituality Aboriginality
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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
How Clay Speaks for Neville Assad
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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
Cultural Iconographies
Feature
Stephanie Britton

Cultural Iconographies is an exhibition of work by migrant and refugee artists who have been in Australia for a relatively short time. To take place in the Bondi Pavilion, Sydney during Carnivale October 1991.

Published June 1991
Australian Contemporary Design in Jewish Ceremony
Feature
Helen Light

Ritual and ceremony enrich all aspects of Jewish life, its life cycle events and daily life. Jews give constant thanks for God's munificence - for the first fruits of the season, for the food on the daily table, for new clothing donned. Everything is inbued with significance and for all events there are rituals.

Published June 1991
Gunta Parups: A Latvian in Australia
Feature
Andra Kins

Looks at the art practice of Gunta Parups who was and remains a displaced person. The experience of leaving one's homeland as a refugee at the age of thirteen during the war is etched indelibly into her being.

Published June 1991
The Odyssey of Salvatore Zofrea
Feature
Joseph Eisenberg

Zofrea wrote "I want my work to sing forever."

Published June 1991
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
BulaBula: New High Tech Arts Centre, Ramingining
Feature
Steve Bunk

The three storey facility looks incongruous in the ramshackle Aboriginal settlement of Ramingining which crouches along a dirt road in an Arnhem Land eucalypt forest 550 km east of Darwin in the Northern Territory. Photos of people in Ramingining.

Published June 1991
Film Makers Davor Dirlic and Laszlo Dudas
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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
Cultural Diversity and Public Galleries
Feature
Janis Wilton

Written with Joseph Eisenberg. The National Association for the Visual Arts [NAVA] is currently sponsoring a project on 'Multiculturalism and the immigrant artist in Australian visual culture'. Part of the study focuses on the role of public galleries in appreciating, exhibiting, and acquiring the work of Australian artists from non- English speaking backgrounds [NESB].

Published June 1991
Are You Being Served? An Open Invitation from MAC
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Charlie Schiavone

Multicultural Artworker's Committee [MAC] aims to provide all citizens with equal opportunity to access and promote art in its various forms.

Published June 1991
Srecko Radman "... In the 'Start' Position"
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Susan Faine

Discussion of the artist's practice as an artist from Croatia in Melbourne since 1971 - how is it affected by linguistic and ethnic differences.

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