New social commentary 08

New Social Commentary 08
Warrnambool Art Gallery
6 September  2 November 2008

Published December 2008

Neo Goth: black in black

Neo Goth: Back in Black
Curator: Alison Kubler
UQ Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane
25 July - 21 September 2008

Published December 2008

Curating paths, musical chairs

Outgoing Director of the Experimental Art Foundation Melentie Pandilovksi spills the beans on the current state of play internationally in terms of powerful independent curators moving into important positions in museums. He puts forward the prevalence of a 'new institutionalism' seeking to redefine contemporary art institutions from within. The EAF is about to release a Futures paper on this topic.

Published December 2008

Beyond the temples: the way of idiosyncracy

Professor and artist Pat Hoffie interviewed highly creative, innovative and idiosyncratic curator Kevin Wilson, once Director of Linden, Director at Noosa Gallery where he devised The Floating Land project and most recently Program Director with the Queensland Artworkers Alliance and their ARC Biennial that opens in October 2009.

Published December 2008

Editorial

Published December 2008

To curate or not to curate, 2008 in Europe: urban BB5 and post-industrial Manifesta 7

London-based Macedonian artist and writer Nadja Prlja compares the urban and modern 5th Berlin Biennial BB5: When Things Cast No Shadow (5 April - 15 June 2008) with Manifesta 7 (19 July - 2 November 2008) which occupied the whole arae of Trentoni in Italy. Prlja pays particular attention to the differences in the ways the projects were curated.

Published December 2008

Curating Chinese themes: cheap labour, migration and capital, Shanghai Biennale and Guangzhou Triennial

In September 2008 Dylan Rainforth went to both the 7th Shanghai Biennale (Translocalmotion) and the 3rd Guangzhou Triennial (Farewell to Post-Colonialism). While he found mixed messages in Shanghai which was curated by artistic director Zhang Qing assisted by Julian Heynen and Henk Slager, it was Guangzhou curated by Gao Shiming, Sarat Maharaj and Johnson Chang that hit the sweet spot with 'witty, people-powered ways forward.'

Published December 2008

I've looked at love from both sides now: reflections on freelance / independent / guest curating

Juliette Peers, art historian and lecturer at RMIT, surveyed a number of freelance curators to find out how they work and why they embrace this insecure, interstitial existence. Hannah Mathews, Elizabeth Gertzakis, Vivonne Thwaites and Anne Kirker are among the freelance curators to whom she spoke.

Published December 2008

Without Borders: Outsider Art in an antipodean context

Without Borders: Outsider Art in an Antipodean Context
Curators: Glenn Barkley, Peter Fay
Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
30 August  21 September 2008

Published December 2008

Exit music: a lake and a stand of trees: George Popperwell

exit music: a lake and a stand of trees: George Popperwell
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA)
25 July  7 September 2008

Published December 2008

Curators, creators and catalysts

Marcus Westbury, former director of Noise, Next Wave, TINA (This Is Not Art) festivals, and writer and presenter of Not Quite Art on ABC TV, writes about the need for art to get away from reflecting too hard on gatekeepers and their requirements. He looks at the Biennale of Sydney at Cockatoo Island, the Next Wave's The Containers Village and the Melbourne Laneways projects as good examples of stepping outside the cube. He concludes that: 'Artists are best to invest their energy in finding their audiences and their communities.'

Published December 2008

Hello Tokyo! Flagging it

Some Material Flags, MOT Tokyo, 22 October  12 January 2009.

Louisa Bufardeci

Published December 2008