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

The Christmas Tree Bucket: Trent Parke's Family Album

The Christmas Tree Bucket:
Trent Parkes Family Album
Australian Centre for Photography
21 November 2008  24 January 2009

Published March 2009

Passage

Passage
Sara Maher
Moonah Arts Centre, Hobart
10  23 December 2008

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

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

Girls, Girls, Girls

Girls, Girls, Girls
Carlton Hotel, Melbourne
Curators: Lyndal Walker, Nat Thomas
23 October  8 November 2008

Published March 2009

Discord: Art from MONA

Discord: Art from MONA
Curator: Nicole Durling
9 January  1 February 2009
Salamanca Arts Centre and various locations

Published March 2009

Introduction to ten essays commissioned by Ben Eltham

Published March 2009

Avoiding myth and message: Australian artists and the literary world

avoiding myth and message: Australia artist and the literary world,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
7 April  12 July 2009, curator: Glenn Barkley.

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

Ghost in the backyard

Using the work of two current Antipodean artists, Amy-Jo Jory and David Pledger, Melbourne-based Kate Sandford explores the place of suburbia in our consciousness and the way that even though real suburbia has changed, some representations of it have stayed the same.

Published March 2009