Clearing

Curated by Colin Langridge
CAST Gallery, Hobart
2  25 August 2002

Published December 2002

The Possibility Forum - Institutional Change and Modest Proposals

This text takes up some of the broader concerns of Tony Bonds initial questions to an Australian panel at ARCO 2002 Madrid, particularly can there be a benign global capitalism? and how do we address the value of exchanges between artists?.

Published December 2002

The SALA Festival

South Australia: metro and regional
2  11 August 2002

Published December 2002

Fashion Infiltrates the Galleries

Even if one's first reaction upon hearing the sound of the words 'Melbourne Fashion Festival' is not to reach for one's gun, but to condemn the dumbing down of 'culture' into Madonna or Barbie 101, bemoan the melting of the abstract expressionist/tachiste snows of yesteryear, it has unquestionably enriched the city's art experience.

Published December 2002

Artrave

Published December 2002

21st Century Chairs

Curator: Kirsten Fitzpatrick
Brisbane City Gallery
16 August - 13 October 2002

Published December 2002

Museums For the 21st Century: Entertainments or Big Challenging Ideas?

Museums both reinforce ones views and challenge them, encouraging innovative connections we hadnt thought of before, driving us on to expanded understandings. Griffin addresses some of the controversies surrounding museums in the age of technology.

Published December 2002

Cacophony + Cramp for the Sensory Bundle

art program, and for the first time showed it outside Sydney. The five works selected for the Adelaide exhibition were complex and esoteric: a gorgeous array of storytelling techniques which explore and exploit narrative and interactivity.

Published December 2002

The Generosity of a Light Touch

For the more than 15 years that the Australian organisation Experimenta Media Arts has metamorphosed through various ideological, aesthetic and technological identities, its one constant has been a passionate involvement with and championing of the new and experimental. Prototype, exhibited in Melbourne in 2002, carried on this tradition, more than living up to the title.

Published December 2002

Singapore Opens Up to the World - Site + Sight: First Major International Show

Using Singapore as the first 'site' for the exhibition, Site + Sight: Translating Cultures from 7 June to 26 July 2002 brought together 26 international artists from 11 countries to discuss and present artworks relating to the theme of globalisation and its cultural impact on the world.

Published December 2002

Arte Povera: Art from Italy 1967 - 2002

Museum of Contemporary Art
23 August  10 November 2002

Published December 2002

Marine Nature in Porcelain: The Recent Work of Robin Best

Ceramic artist Robin Best became fascinated by a complex marine world which included sea-invertebrates/filter feeders like bryozoans, sea sponges and ascidians (sea squirts) during walks on the beach in her seaside suburn of Semaphore. Here Walker discusses some of Best's recent work and conceptual concerns.

Published December 2002