Crystalline signs of the small and poetic

In Audrey Lams Under Development (2007), two detectives investigating a murder seek answers in an ominous, half-built structure. Close attention to the lush, inky compositions reveals the frozen temporality of a Brisbane landmark: the film records the historic erection of the Gallery of Modern Art.

Published March 2009

Joe Felber: Moments of time

Joe Felber's art practice is interdisciplinary and acquisitive, absorbing, assembling, composing and de-composing, playing and re-playing elements from a vast collection of fragments collected across the world in cities and art galleries.

Published March 2009

Art and the abyss: Manipulations of time at the 2008 Yokohama Triennale

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

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

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

Better Places

Better Places
Curator: Melissa Keys
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)
4 December 2008  1 February 2009

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

OK with my decay: Encounters with chronology

Susan Milne, Izabela Pluta, Annie Hogan and Hannah Bertram work with the idea of the theatre of decline set within the grounds of the domestic environment.

Published March 2009

Introduction to ten essays commissioned by Ben Eltham

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