The Obsessive Compulsive Worker

Cover of The Obsessive Compulsive Worker
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Unfettered actions: Sportification, playgrounds and public art
Feature
David Cross

Published 25 August 2021
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'The work that art does': Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation
Feature
Abigail Moncrieff

Published 25 August 2021
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Yours truly, The Department of Homo Affairs
Feature
Jessie Boylan

Published 25 August 2021
NAVA
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First Nations museum memorials: Daniel Boyd and Yhonnie Scarce
Feature
Erin Vink

Published 25 August 2021
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Counter-monuments: Challenging distorted colonial histories through public art and memorials
Feature

Published 25 August 2021
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Transformative communities: Curation and care
Feature
Rayleen Forester

Published 25 August 2021
Riddoch
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Blue skies, blood moon
Feature
Daniel Mudie Cunningham

Published 25 August 2021
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A close-up of Amazon Acres: Helen Grace
Feature
Fiona Kelly McGregor

Published 25 August 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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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.

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Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater
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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.

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The Creative Potential of the Awkward: Sarah crowEST
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A look at roughly the last five years of 2007 Samstag scholar Sarah crowESTs art practice of objects, performances and videos. CrowESTs manifesto is to maintain flexibility in her thinking; to do or consider the opposite of that which is usual or customary and to make something very messy. Her work often explores the functions of the alter ego in contemporary visual arts practice.

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Process, Production and the Invisible Line: Carly Fischer
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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.

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George Petelin

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Sara Elson
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Holly Story

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Galerie Desseldorf, Perth

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The Hours
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The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America
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Fremantle Print Awards
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Judith McGrath

Fremantle Print Award 07
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