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

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

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

Girls, Girls, Girls

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

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

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

Enduring duration

Two video artists William Mansfield and William Lamson whose recent works pay homage to the 'poetics of the banal' and the history of durational practice.

Published March 2009

Daniel Crooks: the future of the past

An edited version of a lecture by Laurence Simmons, Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland, given in association with Daniel Crooks' exhibition everywhere instantly curated by Justin Paton at the Christchurch Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu in 2008. Simmons links Crooks' work to Walter Benjamin's Angel of History and the experiments of Etienne-Jules Marey, the inventor of chronophotography.

Published March 2009

Introduction to ten essays commissioned by Ben Eltham

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

Jeffrey Smart: The question of portraiture

Jeffrey Smart: the question of portraiture, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 4 March - 13 April, 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