The In-Between: Hybrid Arts Laboratories as Places to Question

Hybrid art laboratories - both funded and semi-funded - are dotting themselves around the Australian arts landscape. Most of them involve time away from the everyday, where experience can be intensified and where a new set of meetings between artists can take place. It is an experimental environment encouraging a mode of artmaking that struggles to exist between art form and another, one identity and another, one technology and another, one world and another.

Published December 2004

1/2 Way: Scott Redford the Collages

Dell Gallery at Griffith University
Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
13 August - 19 September 2004

Published December 2004

'Aboriginalism' in Europe: On the Way Out?

Subsequent to Nicholls three month residency in several European regions, she has been examining some of the ways in which Australian Aboriginal art is currently being perceived, received and curated in this part of the world. As she states, the Salzburger Kunstvereins programme, juxtaposing photographic works and video installations by Destiny Deacon and Lisl Ponger was the only one of the four European Indigenous art exhibitions she saw that made any serious and genuine effort to address the postcolonial legacy of Anglo-European colonialism.

Published December 2004

The Importance of Being 'Un-Australian'

Melbournes Moomba festival held in 1956 replaced the annual celebration of the winning of the eight-hour day. Thus an occasion that had originally been devised to commemorate an important victory of the Australian labour movement was transformed into a bipartisan celebration of civic pride and family values.

Published December 2004

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Rebecca Coote, jonathan Hodgkin, Kylie
Johnson, Nick Maxwell, Mish Metjers, Hanna Parssinen. Sally Rees, Tristan Stowards, Tricky Walsh, Matt Warren and Tiffany Winterbottom
Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
19 August - 5 September 2004
A Tasmanian Living Artists' Week Exhibition

Published December 2004

Sutapa Biswas: Birdsong

Sutapa Biswas was born in Santinekethan, India, in 1962 and immigrated to the UK with her family at the age of three. Her subsequent life and studies in Britan have resulted in a truly cross-cultural, multi-layered dialogue within her work. Her 2004 film Birdsong encapsulates the realisation of a young boys dream (in this case her son). Sutapa believes for a child, there is nothing that holds them back if you allow them to dream....

Published December 2004

SameDifference: 04 Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth (BEAP)

PerceptualDifference
John Curtin Gallery, Perth
8 September - 12 December
Curator: Chris Malcolm

BigDifference
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth
12 September - 3 October
Curators: Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr

Published December 2004

Lost Plot

Adelaide Central Gallery
20 August - 12 September 2004

Published December 2004

The Winter (of our Discontent) Games

Blackmore Park Leichhardt
29 August 2004

Published December 2004

Grace Weir: A Fine Line

Experimental Art Foundation
27 August - 25 September 2004

Published December 2004

Artrave

Published December 2004

Audience Implication: PVI Collection

Back in 1998, the PVI (Performance, Video, Installation) Collective were a neat group and a fledgling collective. In 2004, seven years and eighteen major works later, the group has expanded to include new members, in addition to remote cells and networks of groups and individuals across Australia. The PVI refer to themselves as shape-shifters, and in this sense the shifting evolution of the collective has been influenced as much by the consequences of their national and international residencies as their addoption of new technologies.

Published December 2004