The Obsessive Compulsive Worker

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Melanie Jame Wolf's Pop-Cultural Drag: The Chronopolitics of Labour, Libido and Image
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Daniel Mudie Cunningham

Published April 2021
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Apprehending the Multiverse: A Costumed Allegory for Four Percussionists Michaela Gleave's Cosmic Time
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Ann Finegan

Published April 2021
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Michaela Stark: On Control and Beauty
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Alison Kubler

Published April 2021
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Cigdem Ayedemir
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Sumaiya Muyeen

Published April 2021
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On art, fashion, purpose and more: Peggy Griffiths-Madij and Jan Griffiths in conversation with Alana Hunt
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Published April 2021
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From the clothes rack to the body of the wearer: Circumnavigate Kandos in our clothes
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Ann Finegan

Published April 2021
MGNSW
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Sarah Rodigari: Redressing the vernacular
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Abigail Moncrieff

Published April 2021
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The Mangkaja x Gorman Collection: A new wave of Indigenous art and fashion collaboration
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Belinda Cook

Published April 2021

What does obsessive artwork mean? Is this a new compulsion among artists and what does it mean? The work of Hossein Valamanesh, Fiona Hall, Zhuang Hui, Zhang Huan, Shen Shaomin, Katsuhige Nakahashi are referenced.

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Labour of Love: Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro
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Zanny Begg

The latest work by Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro, artists who have been fruitfully collaborating for over seven years was shown at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2007. Called The Paper Trail it explores Paul Virilios ideas about dromology (the science and logic of speed especially in relation to war) through thinking about the Mongolian Empire. A fantastic Mongolian Ger (a nomadic structure ordered on the internet), government archives, Johnson Solids and the Trailer of Death are some of the features of the installation which suggests complex and recurring layers to all globalisation.

Published December 2007
Busy Work: Dreaming Time
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Justine Khamara

Justine Khamara uses a scalpel to cut out tens of thousands of images from magazines. She then joins the often identical images to make very large assemblages. The artist sees the obsessive busywork that she does with her hands as providing her with space to dream and do the real work of sifting through the stuff in her head.

Published December 2007
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Everybody's Working for the Weekend
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partyof

This article was written by a mysterious Australian creative labour collective possibly based in Western Australia. It humorously analyses the special characteristics of creative work as against the goals of capitalism while simultaneously possessing an intense work ethic through looking at recent artworks by Matthew Hunt, Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont, Rodney Glick and Lynnette Voevodin, and pvi collective. It concludes that the creative task of showing how the nature of work is historically and geographically located is vital.

Published December 2007
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Tautology
Review
Anneke Jasper

Tautology
Emma White
9 - 26 August 2007
MOP Projects, Sydney

Published December 2007
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Mirroring our Dialogue: Danielle Freakley as 'The Quote Generator'
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Penny Trotter

The Quote Generator is a three year public art project where the artist only speaks in quotes which she instantly attributes. For the first year Danielle Freakley will quote from commercial products, the second year from friends and acquaintances and the last year from herself in the past.

Published December 2007
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Territorial
Review
Sarah Scott

Territorial
Canberra Contemporary Art Centre
June 2007
24 hr Art, Darwin
September  October 2007
ACT Artists: Silvia Vélez, Bernie Slater, Raquel Ormella
NT artists: Franck Gohier, Catriona Stanton, Gary Lee

Published December 2007
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Painting at SALA
Review
Lisa Harms

Shades of the Real: a selective survey of tonal painting
Adelaide Central Gallery
20 July - 11 August 2007
artists: Morgan Allender, Nona Burden, Stephanie Crase, Kveta Deans, Louise Feneley, Mary-Jean Richardson, Chelsea Lehmann, Rachel Smyth, Deborah Trusson, Yve Thompson
Christian Lock
Greenaway Art Gallery
4 -29 July 2007
Kaylie Weir (in Noodle)
Premier Art Gallery SALA exhibition
3 August  1 September 2007
Learning to Speak
Simone Kennedy
Artlab SALA Exhibition
3-19 August 2007

Published December 2007
A Relationship can't be Outsourced: Tracey Clement
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Dominique Angeloro

The idea of slow art takes on a gripping intensity in Tracey Clements textile works which use ideas of duration and repetition to refer to womens traditional work and skills - a huge ball of wool, a giant button-covered blanket, full-size bodies made from thread and most recently a miniature city of salt and wire. The excessive though delicate relationship between the artist and the work becomes evident in the resulting artefacts. She admits to watching very bad DVDs while on the job.

Published December 2007
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Sara Elson
Review
Holly Story

Sarah Elson
Anigozanthos (eudaimonia hybrid)
5 August - 2 September 2007
Galerie Desseldorf, Perth

Published December 2007
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Reskin: Intensive Collaboration
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Daniel Kojta

A fascinating participant report on an exciting collaborative project of great vision and experimentation. Reskin 2007 was developed by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), the Australian National University School of Art, the Centre for New Media Arts (CNMA) and Craft Australia. It brought twenty international and national artists, designers and technologists together under the guidance of seven professional wearable technology specialists at the forefront of their respective fields. The idea of Reskin, co-ordinated by Alexander Gillespie was to design wearable technologies for the body using the latest materials and methods.

Published December 2007
Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater
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Felicity Wright

The CDEP (Community Development Employment Program) was axed by the Howard Federal Government throughout the Northern Territory though is still current in South Australia and Western Australia. The Program was launched in 1977 by the Fraser Government and has been a very valuable way of getting Aboriginal people to be engaged productive community memes in art centres and other activities. A number of key Aboriginal art centres rely on CDEP staff for printing, administration, preparators, artists and craftspeople. It is a vital component in building community self-reliance and pride.

Published December 2007
Process, Production and the Invisible Line: Carly Fischer
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Marcus Keating

Carly Fischer's work is on the cover of the Work issue of Artlink. Her latest exhibition at Helen Gory Galerie of everyday cleaning items and broken fluorescent tubes made from blue paper is art that is almost invisible but critiques consumerism and the culture of waste.

Published December 2007
 
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