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

Editorial

Published March 2009

Gooch's Utopia: collected works from the Central Desert

Goochs Utopia: collected works from the Central Desert
Curator: Fiona Salmon
Flinders University Art Museum
3 October  23 November 2008
Riddoch Art Gallery
5 December 2008  8 February 2009

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

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

Girls, Girls, Girls

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

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

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

On talking walls

Recent sound and electronic media work by two Tasmanian artists Scot Cotterell and Matt Warren remaster images and sounds from older technology to make a past-present present.

Published March 2009

Silver Artrage 25

Silver Artrage 25
Curators: Andrew Gaynor, Marcus Canning
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)
18 October  21 November 2008

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