Gilding the Lillipilli

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Melanie Jame Wolf's Pop-Cultural Drag: The Chronopolitics of Labour, Libido and Image
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Daniel Mudie Cunningham

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Apprehending the Multiverse: A Costumed Allegory for Four Percussionists Michaela Gleave's Cosmic Time
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Ann Finegan

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Michaela Stark: On Control and Beauty
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Alison Kubler

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Cigdem Ayedemir
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Sumaiya Muyeen

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On art, fashion, purpose and more: Peggy Griffiths-Madij and Jan Griffiths in conversation with Alana Hunt
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From the clothes rack to the body of the wearer: Circumnavigate Kandos in our clothes
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Ann Finegan

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Sarah Rodigari: Redressing the vernacular
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Abigail Moncrieff

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The Mangkaja x Gorman Collection: A new wave of Indigenous art and fashion collaboration
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Belinda Cook

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Tree decorating was revived in Melbourne as part of the larger Treeproject. Looks at some of the issues faced with mounting such an event.

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Architecture and Lyndall Milani's Installations
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Bruce Muirhead

Lyndall Milani uses sculptural installations to question the place of architecture in the landscape and within human life.

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Reading the Land
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Stephanie Britton

The idea for a 7 day 'Reading the Land' Festival came to Wimmera River Catchment Group Chairperson, farmer, artist and environmentalist Barry Clugston during a series of salinity flights.

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Let There be Light and Power
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Berwyn Lewis

Berwyn Lewis talks to solar physicist Bruce Robins. Imagine 6 billion people simultaneously turning on lights and electrical appliances. This apocalyptic drain on power would plunge us into an eternal blackout with devastating effects on the environement.

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Willmot Playspace Project
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Marla Guppy

Willmot Play Space has taken place over a four year period and has involved the conversion of a disused football field inot a community park.

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Earth-Sheltered Building using Timber
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John Maitland

Earth sheltered housing is not new. The most common way of keeping the soils at bay has been with reinforced concrete and masonry walls and roofs.

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Mudflats: A Fertile Breeding Ground for Artists
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Charles Zuber

Mudflat arts believes that the landscape is not there to be painted so much as to be protected. The role has changed from one of passive painter to active member of the community.

Published December 1991
Gateways Project
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Chris Downie

..the response to a site was very much tied up with the way humans had mediated the experience. Yes trees and forests were sacred but that didn't mean that you couldn't touch them. Our mediation of course must be sensitive - be fearless yet thoughtful... Series of black and white photographs accompany the article.

Published December 1991
Response to the Climate in the Top End
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Phil Harris

It never gets really cold in the Top End. But it does get very humid during the Wet. However, simple steps in house design can make the house comfortable and you don't need fans and air conditioners.

Published December 1991
First Australian Jewellery Biennial
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Stephanie Radok

Exhibition review Manifest Destiny: Ian North
Vast: David Stephenson
Contemporary Art Centre
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14 September - 6 October 1991

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Built Form for Well-Being, Not Just Comfort
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Emilis Prelgauskas

Looks at issues of energy self sufficiency -- battery banks and photovoltaic solar collector panels.

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Res B: a Design Proposal for Brisbane
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Rex Addison

In Brisbane the older suburbs are distinctive and a prime source of identity for this sub-tropical city. The timber tradition has left us a rich heritage. For this proposal we have taken an existing suburb with houses on 800m2 blocks. The houses are simple single frontal address buildings.

Published December 1991
Exponential Losses, Collective Guilt: The Work of Jeannie Baker
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Berwyn Lewis

Change, and how it effects the evironment and the quality of life, is a recurring theme and metaphor in the work of artist Jeannie Baker. While celebrating the beauty and fragility of the environment she delivers a provocative and powerful message about our responsibilities towards the natural world.

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