Mnemotech : sense + scape + time + memory

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
18 Sept - 20 October 2002

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

19th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award

Museum & Art Gallery of the NT
Darwin
10 August - 27October 2002

Published December 2002

21st Century Chairs

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

Published December 2002

Arte Povera: Art from Italy 1967 - 2002

Museum of Contemporary Art
23 August  10 November 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

Jewel Mackenzie: Gemini Paintings

Jewel Mackenzie's practice explores both the understanding and experience of the world and the history and legacies of painting. Her background in both dressmaking and in public administration has informed her project to provoke and explore the positioning of the artist within contemporary bureaucratic culture.

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

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

Artrave

Published December 2002

African Marketplace and Reporting the World: John Pilger's Great Eyewitness Photographers

African Marketplace
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
22 August - 28 September 2002
Reporting the World: John Pilgers Great Eyewitness Photographers
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
8 August - 6 October 2002

Published December 2002

Scaling Up at ACCA

Opening in mid October 2002, the new ACCA is a purpose built complex designed by Melbourne- based architects Wood Marsh. An architectural marvel and simultaneously a contemporary art space, at last the ACCA is moving to a building that lives up to the portent of its name. Haley spoke to the new Creative Director Juliana Engberg in August of 2002.

Published December 2002