A Response to 'Incidental Benefits'

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Sasha Grbich

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Francis Russell

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In conversation with Sabrina Baker

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Courtney Coombs

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Ashley Crawford

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Jen Rae

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Alana Hunt

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James Tylor

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Response to the article by Peter Anderson in this issue of Artlink examining arts industry rhetoric and policy objectives.

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Culture as Transformation: ARX
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Vivienne Binns

Artist's regional exchange (ARX). Events such as ARX in Perth are rare and potentially of such value for me that, although not a participating artist this time, I was determined to travel from the east to attend. Four views on the exchange See also the articles by Ian Howard, Anne Kirker and Adrian Jones in this issue of Artlink.

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The Artist, the Gallery and the Recession
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Geoffrey Legge

In thinking about the repercussions of the recession for artists and galleries, I am worried that our dismay at the present hardship and heartbreak may blind us to the fundamental recession related changes to the artist-gallery system which tend to the detriment of artists and forever endanger the quality and excitement of the Australian art scene.

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There's Magic in your Hands
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Karen Brown

Looks at the artist in residence program for Thancoupie at the Hamley Bridge Primary School South Australia in May 1992.

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Incidental Benefits: Arts Industry Rhetoric and Policy Objectives
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Peter Anderson

The notion of the arts as an industry dates in Australia from about 10 years ago with the beginnings of statistical data measuring the economic impact of artistic activity. ... (Response to this article by Anna Ward, Director of the National Association of Visual Arts also in this issue of Artlink.)

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Art, Sports Stars and the Depression: Knocking at the Door of the Special World
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Nelson English

Our sports stars are successful because they are not burdened by funding programs which dribble a meagre supply to an army of unknown novices....the arts need radical strategies to help them survive the recession and achieve greater audience participation. (this article is responded to by Norm Austin, the Deputy Director of the Art Gallery of NSW).

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Uncertainly Thinking
Review
Catherine Lumby

Exhibition review Blink
Contemporary Art Centre
Adelaide
May 1992

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Aboriginal Art, the Nation State Suburbia
Feature
Peter Sutton

In Englishwe use the word 'country' in two main senses: to refer to nation states, and to speak about rural lands beyond the big cities and their suburbs. In Australia there is historically a third zone out past the country; the now quickly shrinking Outback.

Published September 1992
What is Australian Work?
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Susan Cohn

I am often asked where I originally come from. And, if I am in a wicked mood, I will try to embarass the questioner with some non-answer. A persistent enquirer will ignore the flippancy and further qualify their question by rephrasing the terminology to ask whether I was born in Australia (which incidentally, was the form the question was usually couched in up to the 1980s when issues of multiculturalism introduced a so-called obscure politeness.

Published September 1992
Arts and the Economy?
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Max Bourke

Just recently I was giving a lecture to a large group of arts people when a person in the audience had a go at me for talking about the economy of the arts and not about art. I, too, am very conscious of the intellectual dilemma in this regard.

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Demystifying Art Criticism
Book Review
Catherine Speck

Book review Art Connections
Jenny Aland and Max Darby
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Sites in Relation to Themselves
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Richard Grayson

Exhibition review 42 Degrees South and 175 Degrees East
Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre
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The Brush-Off Syndrome: Stage Design, History and Visual Art in Adelaide
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Pamela J Zeplin

Clear discussion of the issues facing stage and set designers in the visual arts world.

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