The Obsessive Compulsive Worker

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Nagesh's recipe for Biryani
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Nagesh Seethiah

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Geological pit stops: Kate Hill and Isadora Vaughan
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Abbra Kotlarczyk

Published 01 March 2020
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Duchamp and Australia: In opposition
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Rex Butler and A.D.S. Donaldson

Published 01 March 2020
Australian Body Art Festival
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The Brazilian moment: A picture gallery in transformation
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John Mateer

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Crafty prepping
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Sera Waters

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2019: The year of our cyberpunk future
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Darren Jorgensen

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Art in the time of the burning
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Ian Milliss

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Reading the entrails: Digesting posthuman entanglement
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Sasha Grbich

Published 01 December 2019

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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