Conference of the birds, the trees, the waves, Correspondences: Victor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami

Published March 2009

Atomic Clock: microtime of the molecular and good old-fashioned molar beer

The responses of digital artists David Haines, Jon Hunter and Pete Newman to the molecular scale on which our world is now micromanaged are contrasted with the work of the late Jon Wah whose work stopped time with a saddhu-like discipline of the will. Jon Wah died in August 2008, aged 27. A posthumous retrospective was held for him at Serial Space, Chippendale, Sydney, 8-18 December 2008.

Published March 2009

Patricia Piccinini: Related Individuals

Patricia Piccinini: Related Individuals
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
12 November  6 December 2008

Published March 2009

Life and times: Eternal wake in three chapters

Life. Death. Thereafter was at Silvershot Gallery in Melbourne from 16 September  29 November 2008. Melbourne-based curator Mark Feary produced a relatively new exhibition model, three separate, distinct, but thematically entwined shows, running end to end for eighteen days each showing the work of Kate Just, Steve Carr, Patricia Piccinini, Paolo Canevari, Rob McLeish, Ronnie van Hout, Jesper Just, Jason Greig, Sally Blenheim and Blair Trethowan.

Published March 2009

Brook's way with kinds, categories and memes

The Awful Truth About What Art Is
by Donald Brook,
published by Artlink 2008
RRP $38.50
Reviewed by Lucas Ihlein

The Awful Truth About What Art Is can be ordered online at www.artlink.com.au

Published March 2009

Rosalie Gascoigne

Rosalie Gascoigne
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
19 December 2008  15 March 2009
Curator: Kelly Gelatly

Published March 2009

Artrave

Published March 2009

Planning for deep time: Nuclear monuments and Aboriginal art

Darren Jorgensen tackles the topic of nuclear waste and the possible plan to make Australia the dump site. If this were to occur the affect it would have on the Australian land as well as the Aboriginal communities that inhabit it would be quiet destructive and detrimental. Jorgensen explains the situation whereby foreign countries seek to dump their nuclear waste in Australian land by bribing its inhabitants for the right to do so.

In addition to this Jorgensen also explains the nature of monuments and its significance towards portraying an indexical symbol of, in this situation, danger by exploring the involvement of aboriginal artists in relation to the creation of such monuments.

Published March 2009

Contemporary Australia: Optimism

Contemporary Australia: Optimism
Curatorial Manager: Julie Ewington
Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane
15 November 2008  22 February 2009

Published March 2009

Time and motion studies: Twin strategies

Gabriella and Silvana Mangano undertake their art as a shared style of communication between siblings. Now showing at MUMA (Monash University Museum of Art) their collaborative work embraces intimacy and repetition in performance, drawing, video, sound and installation.

Published March 2009

About visual imagery, intuition, and teleportation

Melentie Pandilovski's article is adapted from a paper he gave at the ISEA conference in Singapore in 2008. He writes about interactions between the arts, science and technology through looking at the work of British artist Lei Cox's work Teleportation Experiment.

Published March 2009

dreamTime

An analysis of Aboriginal conceptions of time and its similarity to the ideas of modern physics, science fiction, and those of artists such as Monet, Cézanne, Picasso, Breton, Klein and Richter, and philosophers such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Deleuze and Derrida. They too have sought to feel and know spacetime in the pressing and intimate way that Aborigines do.

Published March 2009