The Prying Game

Explores the difficult issues surrounding artistic expression and censorship (both self censorship and public) with the associated threat of legal action.

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

Artrave

Published September 1998

Lollies and Legends

The artist writes about his work and his influences. Explores issues of self censorship.

Published September 1998

The Promise of Fruit: Kirsty Darlaston, Brenda Goggs, Lucia Pichler, Karen Russell

North Adelaide School Of Art Gallery
13 May - 4 June 1998

Published September 1998

Porn Again

Porn is a safety valve, big business, a cabinet of curiosities, a staging theatre for many contradictions and inversions: male submission, female dominance, intricate identity and gender crossings, and the validity of female desire. Pleasure is misunderstood in a society where is commodified, exchanged and consumed displaced into food, wine, cars....Discusses the works of Jane Burton, Mary Fallon, Catherine Mackinnon, Marcia Pally and W.H.Auden.

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

Ecologies of Place and Memory and Time and Tide

Ecologies of Place and Memory (Lauren Berkowitz, Rosemary Burke, Torquil Canning, Lola Greeno, Ruth Hadlow, Sieglinde Karl and Louise Weaver)
Time & Tide (Rowena Gough, Gay Hawkes, Lin Li, Pilar Rojas and Catherine Truman)
Both curated by Bridget Sullivan
Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart
May 22 - June 14 (Ecologies)
June 19 - July 12 (Time)

Published September 1998

Sustained Contemplative Images: Atlas Exhibition Cathy Blanchflower

Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth
1 - 22 May 1998.
Reviewed by Mary Livesey

Published September 1998

Black Humour

Curated by Neville John O'Neill for the Canberra Contemporary Art Space.
Tandanya, National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide
10 July - 16 August 1998

Published September 1998

In the Middle of it All - A Personal Text

From the perspective of one who has worked on the SA Classification of Publications Board. Argues that censorship is becoming increasingly unmanageable due to two trends which are detailed in the article. Also argues that public debate (with the exception of child pornography) in the media has declined. In contrast there is rising debate about sacrilege.

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