Artrave

Published June 2009

Contemporary Art in the Hermit Kingdom

Artists who have created fascinating works within the DMZ (Korean Demilitarized Zones) include the Spanish artist Santiago Sierra, the Italian artist Armin Linke and the Australian artist Lyndal Jones.

Published June 2009

New climate for an old world: Paul Carter's Nearamnew

Paul Carter's Nearamnew, a public art work which is embedded in the 7,500 square metres of paving at Federation Square, asks for multiple, inclusive and open-ended responses.

Published June 2009

Collapsing the Bilateral: creating consciousness

The Long March Project founded by Lu Jie is an ongoing art project that began with a philosophical evaluation of the complex role and meaning of art and selfhood, in all its political, economic, cultural, and social guises.
It is critical that new opportunities are found for artistic reciprocity that exist beyond the presumed centres of art validation (ie. America and Europe). The Long March directs the gaze of Chinese cultural producers to re-assess how art can be a tool through which ideas of making – self, thought, object – can be critically empowered and conceived.

Published June 2009

Jelek in East Timor

*(jelek means ugly in Indonesian)
Artist Ruth Hadlow lives and works in East Timor. Her thoughts about it question notions of beauty and ugliness.

Published June 2009

Mark Siebert: new work

Mark Siebert: Forever 27 is at the Experimental Art Foundation, 15 May – 13 June 2009.

Published June 2009

Karen Genoff

Karen Genoff
The Mother Lode
BMG Art Adelaide
27 March-18 April 2009

Published June 2009

Gosia Wlodarczak

Gosia Wlodarczak: Conversation
Helen Maxwell Gallery, ACT
22 February – 28 March 2009

Published June 2009

China welcomes Australian ceramics

Potter and Head of Ceramics at ANU School of Art Janet de Boos writes about her journeys to China since 1996 and her current collaborations in bone china tableware. She writes : 'Rather than just a place where we can appropriate techniques and technologies and source cheap labour, China becomes a place for Australians to work and research collaboratively with fellow artists.'

Published June 2009

Ten Days on the Island festiva

Ten days on the island
24 March - 5 April 2009

Published June 2009

21 Ada St - the DVD

Published June 2009

Threads, traces and legacies of the mission

Artist Kylie Waters works with the history of her own family and the way it is embedded in South Australian history. Specifically she explores the space between negative and positive evaluations of Lutheran missions in Central and South Australia.

Published June 2009