Nam Bang!

NAM BANG!
Curator: Boitran Huynh-Beattie
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
4 April - 21 June 2009

Published June 2009

Transforming East and West dialogues

Haema Sivanesan, Curator and Executive Director of SAVAC ( South Asian Visual Arts Centre) in Toronto Canada, analyses the current situation of Asian contemporary art by looking at work that is not only cross-cultural but concerned with bridging cultures and being a form of social action rather than simply engaging with commodity culture.

Published June 2009

Paul Zika

Paul Zika: Home and Away – reconstructing artifice
Curator: Philip Watkins
Carnegie Gallery, Hobart
26 March – 3 May 2009

Published June 2009

What would you do?

A number of practising artists were invited to respond to a scenario in which a local council asked them to organise an exhibition featuring local artists from a sister city in a third world country. It seems a noble gesture, but one fraught with potential missteps. How would they proceed?

Published June 2009

Yellow Vest Syndrome

The Yellow Vest Syndrome: recent West Australian art
Curator: Jasmin Stephens
Fremantle Arts Centre
31 January – 29 March 2009

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

21 Ada St - the DVD

Published June 2009

Karen Genoff

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

Published June 2009

Editorial

Published June 2009

Bilum breakout: fashion, artworld, national pride

In the past decade bilum fashion has really taken off in Papua New Guinea and is now getting wider exposure through a few PNG gallery and designer websites like Pasifik Nau and Lava Lava Innovations. Since the late 1990s, local trendsetters of high fashion, including Cathy Kata and Florence Jaukae, have made a name for their original bilum outfits.

Published June 2009

Island improvisations: Nathan Gray

In 2008 Nathan Gray spent two months on Itaparica, a Brazilian island in the Bahia region, as part of an exchange initiated by The South Project Inc. At the end of the year the exhibition Tudo Que Acho was held to show the work created and produced as a result of the residency. The title in English means ‘everything I think’. In Portuguese the phrase also denotes discovery, as ‘to think’ and ‘to find’ signify the same act.
Tudo Que Acho: Nathan Gray was shown 4 – 20 December 2008 at The Narrows, Melbourne.

Published June 2009

Caitlin Yardley

spill, the insistent body
Caitlin Yardley
6 March – Sunday 12 April 2009
Heathcote Museum and Gallery, WA

Published June 2009