The Spectre of Pedophilia and Dennis Del Favero's Parting Embrace

Dennis Del Favero's 'Parting Embrace' is a series of 10 Type C prints which attempt to investigate the subjectivity of sexual abuse in a way that not only engages with its inherent pornographic content but which refuses neat moral resolution.

Published September 1998

Garden of Earthly Delights: Erotica at Carrick Hill

Gone from Carrick Hill before it became a public collection are three Stanley Spencer erotic paintings and William Dobell's 'The Duchess Disrobes' (two versions). Smith examines the nature of the collection of works by Sir Edward and Lady Ursula Haywood.

Published September 1998

Political Pop-porn in Hong Kong

Much of the vibrancy of Hong Kong's contemporary culture manifests itself in unexpected new forms...explores how four artists construct images of sexuality within the compact (post?) colonial environment.

Published September 1998

8 X Tables by Steve Tepper

Moore's Building, Fremantle
May 14 - 28, 1998
Reviewed by Robyn Taylor

Published September 1998

In a Barbie World

Fictional Barbies (Mattel trademarked doll) are presented in the dark side of suburbia spinning a queer identity for Ken and Barbie.

Published September 1998

Visual Culture, Pornography and Censorship

Editorial: hypocrisy in our attitude to sex. It is both celebrated and maligned, and the censorship laws allow young people to view explicit violence while classifying sex for adults only, based on psuedo-scientific analysis of 'normal' or 'aberrant'. This history of public attitude from the Enlightenment on, libertinism a radical opposition to status quo, advertising and porn, and artists exercising self-censorship.

Published September 1998

Artrave

Published September 1998

An Accelerated Life: Lydia Lunch

Women need to fight for an alternative pornography. Women need a pornography that addresses all the alternatives of our sexuality, in every format, so that there's something for everyone....Farmer interviewed porn star Lydia Lunch on her visit to the MRC in Adelaide.

Published September 1998

Masculinity Below the Surface: Pornography and Suppression in Images of Broken Hill Miners

Mines and mining provide underground settings for a sub-genre of gay male porn. Features the work of artists George Gittoes and Avis Smith.

Published September 1998

Some Notes on Pornography, Contemporary Art and Social Politics

Explores the 'pornographic' in the public domain. Art isn't an excuse for pornography, because pornography simpy exists. Art has remained a realm within which a vast range of ideas can be explored and tested. There are no questions of ethics or morality in art. This starts to get more exciting as art gets closer to life.

Published September 1998

Subject Declined: Swap Mail with Francesca Da Rimini

Explores Francesca Da Rimini's web site 'Dollspace' - extracts of an email interview.

Published September 1998

Crossing the Fine Line: The Case of Concetta Petrillo

Photography has inspired more hysteria and censorship than paintings .... examines the situation in Perth Western Australia with child pornography and the photographs of Concetta Petrillo.

Published September 1998