A Response by a Fringe Dweller

Debates about what is mainstream, whether in global or national terms, seem to perennial. Some have claimed Aboriginal art is now mainstream. Stephanie Radok takes this notion apart.

Published December 2004

Artrave

Published December 2004

Human Weeds

Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
10 September - 17 October 2004

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

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

The New Cosmopolitans

During his visit to Melbourne in April this year, Bombay-born, Oxford-educated, Harvard professor, Homi Bhabha spoke of Vernacular Cosmopolitanism, the global citizenry of refugees, economic migrants and minorities within cultures who must learn about translation because you survive that way.

Published December 2004

Instinct

Emily Floyd, Sharon Goodwin, Irene Hanenbergh, Louise Hearman, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Ronnie Van Hout, David Noonan, Lisa Roet, Kathy Temin.
Curator Lisa Vasiliou
Faculty Gallery, Monash University
9 September - 5 November 2004

Published December 2004

Henry Jones' Art Hotel

Hobart
Opening on October 1, 2004
http://www.thehenryjones.com

Published December 2004

[in]stall(s)

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

Towards Ubuntu: The Way of the South

Melbourne is the host city of the South Project, a project designed to celebrate the creative energies of people living in the southern hemisphere and create south-south dialogue between artists of the countries of the south. South 1 encouraged all kinds of responses: philosophical and whimsical, creative and conceptual, contesting and renewing ideas, in the first gathering of its kind.

Published December 2004

Hybrid World

Published December 2004

Fakery and Fabrication in Photomedia

A series of photographs, still images from Monika Tichaceks 2002 video/performance work Lineage of the Divine, were exhibited in Japan in Supernatural Artificial, an exhibition of nine contemporary Australian photomedia artists. Tichacek exploits a heightened intimacy between viewer and work to construct complex and ambiguous scenarios that simultaneously delight, unsettle and confound.

Published December 2004