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

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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

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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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From the clothes rack to the body of the wearer: Circumnavigate Kandos in our clothes
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Ann Finegan

Published April 2021
ACE Open
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Sarah Rodigari: Redressing the vernacular
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Abigail Moncrieff

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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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