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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Published March 2009