Art of the Biotech Era: Art, Culture and Biotechnology

Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
27 February - 3 April 2004

Published June 2004

Allthatglitters: Contemporary Visions of the Gold Coast / Allthatglitters: 50 Years of Gold Coast Kitsch and Memory

7 February - 21 March 2004

The Gold Coast City Regional Art Gallery
14 February - 9 May 2004

Published June 2004

Consuming Pleasure

Published June 2004

Suburban Edge

Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
5 March - 18 April 2004

Published June 2004

Joan Kerr, Art Historian: February 1938 - February 2004

Joan Kerr, Art Historian, February 1938 - February 2004

Published June 2004

Holy, Holy, Holy

Flinders University Art Museum
20 February - 17 April 2004

Published June 2004

Tokyo Shopping Mix: An Email Saga*

It is not hard to shop given the entire city of Tokyo seems to be premised on the activity. Tokyo is a space as complex and flowing as the most convoluted natural system. One may be in a train station but it is filled with shops. Above ground, below ground, on the ground - shops. Haley documents his activities over a period of a couple of months in what is most likely the worlds largest consumer oriented city. He discusses the somewhat surreal and absurdist nature of this environment and paints a picture of the plethora of advertisements, signs, extreme fashion trends and other visual paraphernalia that consume the city.

Published June 2004

Flatness Packed

While the idea of modern and contemporary art are located in a fairly nebulous discursive realm, the notion of modern or contemporary lifestyle (the two seem, in fact, interchangeable) are very much a part of the familiar rhetoric of consumer spending. No Nonsense Return Policy (2003), Pat Foster and Jen Bereans installation at BUS Gallery, documented six miss-assembled items of IKEA furniture and dissect the curious aesthetic cycles that drive the commercial products in both realms. Taylor looks at this work and others which are focused on drawing attention to the formal and ideological intersections between modernism and the stuff of homes and home decoration.

Published June 2004

New 04

Guy Benfield, Nadine Christensen, Stephen Honegger & Anthony Hunt, Tom Nicholson, Sangeeta Sandrasegar, Parekohai Whakomoe
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
23 March - 16 May 2004

Published June 2004

Repercussions: Individual and Collaborative Works

Peter Hennessey & Patricia Piccinimi
Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide
28 February - 28 March 2004

Published June 2004

Pornography and Photography

A series of three exhibitions which appeared to erase or at least redraw the boundaries between art photography and pornography was seen at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney in 2003. Helen Grace talked to Alasdair Foster, Director of the ACP and curator of one of the exhibitions, about this timely and challenging project.

Published June 2004

Now, Beauty: Cover or Re-Mix

Perth Symposium, various venues
19 - 21 March 2004

Published June 2004